organism

ORGANISM

natura et figura alicujus rei.

organism: compāges, is, f. (that which is fastened and framed together): these bodily o.s, hae c. corporis, Cic. Sen. 21, 77: this o. (body politic) has grown up together, haec c coaluit, Tac. H. 4, 74, fin. Phr.: creatures, with a marvellously subtle o., immensae subtilitatis animalia, Plin. 11, init.: creatures, with a very simple o., *corpora quorum partes admodum simplici ratione inter se cohaerent.