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LIVING THING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A living (or once living) entity
Synonyms:
animate thing; living thing
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("living thing" is a kind of...):
unit; whole (an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity)
Domain member category:
viability ((of living things) capable of normal growth and development)
immature; young ((used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "living thing"):
being; organism (a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently)
life (living things collectively)
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)
Context examples:
If every living thing were swept from the country the future explorer would find upon the walls of these caves ample evidence of the strange fauna—the dinosaurs, iguanodons, and fish lizards—which had lived so recently upon earth.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
