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  • adjective Without organs

Etymologies

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organ +‎ -less

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Examples

  • It was better than human material for maintaining life in organless fragments, and that was now my friend's chief activity.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

  • If anywhere truly exemplified in plants, it is only in the lowest and simplest, where the being is a structural unit, a single cell, memberless and organless, though organic, -- the same thing as those cells of which all the more complex plants are built up, and with which every plant and (structurally) every animal began its development.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

  • Meanwhile she was not a person to watch the destruction of her hopes without making violent efforts to stop it; and immediately she had played the vicar into the vestry after service that Sunday she left the congregation organless and hurried away into the churchyard.

    The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

  • The moneron is an organless, structureless organism, consequently asexual.

    Religion and Lust or, The Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire James Weir 1881

  • The actual living Monera are specimens of such organless or structureless organisms, as they must have boon formed by spontaneous generation at the commencement of the history of life.

    The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876

  • divided by peristalsis, you dwell in silence, organless, without heart or liver or kidney, a thing of mantle & hyaline, psuedocorporeal, with a 20% miss chance 10% with magic weapons.

    mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2004

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