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protoorganism en · NOUN

Etymology

From proto- + organism.

Meanings

1. An organism whose nature is so difficult to determine that it might be referred to either the animal or the vegetable kingdom.
   • This tree represents a complex “phylogeny” of macromolecules all within one ancestral lineage, before the proto-organism. 2013, Geoffrey Eglinton, Mary Teresa Joseph Murphy, Organic Geochemistry: Methods and Results:

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