Organism vs Gens - What's the difference?
organism | gens |
(biology) A discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.
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, title= (by extension) Any complex thing with properties normally associated with living things.
generations
(historical) A legally defined unit of Roman society, being a collection of people related by birth, marriage or adoption, but allowing a greater amount of time between members and their common ancestor than is commonly implied by the term related.
(anthropology) A tribal subgroup whose members are characterized by having the same descent, usually along the male line.
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As nouns the difference between organism and gens
is that organism is (biology) a discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism while gens is .organism
English
Noun
(en noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
Hyponyms
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* free-living organism * organismal * organismicAnagrams
* * English words suffixed with -ismgens
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from generations.Abbreviation
(Abbreviation) (head)See also
* genEtymology 2
(wikipedia gens) From (etyl) ; see also gentile, gender, genus, generate.Noun
(en-noun)- The taboos, the laws, the rules of genses , tribes, and nations, from the lowest to the highest, are upheld by a vague terror and sacred awe which society impresses on man by threats of ill-luck, fearful evil, and terrible punishments befalling sinners and transgressors of the tabooed, of the holy and the forbidden, charged with a mysterious, highly contagious, and virulently infective life-consuming energy.
