: an organized society (as of a social insect) that functions as an organic whole
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Recent Examples on the WebThe human body is actually a superorganism teeming with bacteria, fungi and hundreds of trillions of viruses. Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 23 Nov. 2020 Their study, carried out over the course of nine days, proved that the stump under scrutiny was still a participating member of the local superorganism.The Economist, 25 July 2019 Trees can clone themselves into 80,000-year-old superorganisms. Ellie Shechet, New York Times, 28 Aug. 2019 Such subterranean junctions permit exchange between individual trees of food, water, minerals and even micro-organisms, to create what some regard as a superorganism.The Economist, 25 July 2019 No other bee takes division of labor to such an extreme, with colonies comprising one queen and tens of thousands of workers thrumming along in perfect synchrony—a superorganism. Lucas Foglia, National Geographic, 3 May 2019 The colony is a well-oiled superorganism, similar to ant and termite colonies.National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2019 Slime mold is sometimes called a superorganism: an organism made up of organisms. Brian Resnick, Vox, 5 Apr. 2018 The first theme centers on superorganisms, animals such as ants and bees that act in cohesion as a single organism. Grace Dickinson, Philly.com, 22 May 2018 See More