organic

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C1 — Advanced

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noun a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter
adjective relating or belonging to the class of chemical compounds having a carbon basis
adjective being or relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms

From Middle English organic, organik, from Old French organique, from Latin organicus.

“It is just common dust--assorted fibres and miscellaneous organic and mineral particles. — The blue scarab, R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman
Thus pain, which in the inorganic life is impossible, is possible in the organic. — The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes, Edgar Allan Poe
The thoroughly differentiated unity is nature as self-specifying, or as an organic, not an abstract, unity. — Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition, John Dewey

organic fertilizer, organic fertiliser

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