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organic is an adjective and noun meaning "relating or belonging to the class of chemical compounds having a carbon basis". It carries 7 recorded senses.
relating or belonging to the class of chemical compounds having a carbon basis
“hydrocarbons are organic compounds”
chemistry
being or relating to or derived from or having properties characteristic of living organisms
“organic life”
“organic growth”
“organic remains found in rock”
of or relating to foodstuff grown or raised without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides or hormones
“organic eggs”
“organic vegetables”
“organic chicken”
health food
constitutional in the structure of something (especially your physical makeup)
a fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for organic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.