释义 |
su·per·organism \|süpə(r)+\ noun Etymology: super- + organism 1. : a huge or superior organism; specifically : an organism that transcends through mind the organic or physical 2. a. : society or the state that is an integration of human beings into a whole comparable to the human organism in the diversity of its units and their mutual interdependence and in its superiority to yet limited dependence on the physically organic from which it springs b. : a colony of social organisms (as ants) in which the members and castes are integrated in much the same way as the organs of a multicellular individual |