Organism vs Pestiferous - What's the difference?
organism | pestiferous |
(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.
containing organisms that cause contagious diseases
* 1589 : Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations
* 1792 : Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
* 1853 : Charles Dickens, Bleak House
annoying, vexatious
* 1592 : William Shakespeare, King Henry VI, Part 1
* 1896 : Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc
* 1938 : Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster, "Superman" in Action Comics #7, page 2:
As a noun organism
is a discrete and complete living thing, such as animal, plant, fungus or microorganism.As an adjective pestiferous is
containing organisms that cause contagious diseases.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
* See alsoDerived terms
* free-living organism * organismal * organismicAnagrams
* * English words suffixed with -ismpestiferous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- because he hath vouchsafed to preserue our nation from such fountains, from serpents and venemous wormes, & from al other pestiferous & contagious creatures.
- In these solemn moments man discovers the germ of those vices, which like the Java tree shed a pestiferous vapour around--death is in the shade!
- and bears the body of our dear brother here departed to a hemmed-in churchyard, pestiferous and obscene, whence malignant diseases are communicated to the bodies of our dear brothers and sisters who have not departed...
- No, prelate; such is thy audacious wickedness, / Thy lewd, pestiferous , and dissentious pranks, / As very infants prattle of thy pride.
- and if any could have hanged his hindering and pestiferous council and set him free, he would have answered Joan's prayer and set her in the field.
- Lois rescues Clark from the pestiferous curly...