We found 1 definitions of living thing from 1 different sources.
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living thing - a living (or once living) entity | ||
animate thing | ||
whole, unit an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; "how big is that part compared to the whole?"; "the team is a unit" | ||
being, organism the state or fact of existing; "a point of view gradually coming into being"; "laws in existence for centuries" | ||
life living things collectively; "the oceans are teeming with life" | ||
biont a discrete unit of living matter | ||
cell (biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals |