organs

2 definitions found

organs - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Morphon \Mor"phon\, n. [Gr. ?, p. pr. of ? to form.] (Biol.)
     A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of
     form, in distinction from bion, a physiological individual.
     See Tectology. --Haeckel.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Of morphons there are six orders or categories: 1.
           Plastids or elementary organisms. 2. Organs,
           homoplastic or heteroplastic. 3. Antimeres (opposite
           or symmetrical or homotypic parts). 4. Metameres
           (successive or homodynamous parts). 5. Personae
           (shoots or buds of plants, individuals in the narrowest
           sense among the higher animals). 6. Corms (stocks or
           colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the term idorgan has
           been recently substituted. See Idorgan.
           [1913 Webster]

organs - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  organs
      n 1: edible viscera of a butchered animal [syn: variety meat,
           organs]