protoorganism
protoorganism · protoorganisms
An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to…An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.
Meaning
1 sensesAn organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.
Origin
From proto- + organism.From proto- + organism.
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