EGAVE

organic

About 28.21 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Pertaining to or derived from living organisms. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  2. adjective Pertaining to an organ of the body of a living organism.
  3. adjective Relating to the compounds of carbon, relating to natural products.
  4. adjective Of food or food products, grown in an environment free from artificial agrichemicals, and possibly certified by a regulatory body.
  5. adjective Describing a form of social solidarity theorized by Emile Durkheim that is characterized by voluntary engagements in complex interdependencies for mutual benefit (such as business agreements), rather than mechanical solidarity, which depends on ascribed relations between people (as in a family or tribe).
  6. adjective Of a military unit or formation, or its elements, belonging to a permanent organization (in contrast to being temporarily attached).
  7. adjective Instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end.
  8. adjective Generated according to the ranking algorithms of a search engine, as opposed to deliberate promotional techniques e.g. by advertisers.

Similar words

constitutional constituent natural structured integrated constitutive essential nonsynthetic organic fertilizer biologic

Often followed by

matter compounds and chemistry acids material carbon solvents substances molecules

Word family

organically organicities organicity organics

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