Living Thing (Noun)
Meaning
A living (or once living) entity.
Classification
Unique beginner for nouns.
Examples
- Plants are an essential living thing on Earth that provides us oxygen through photosynthesis.
- Bacteria, despite their tiny size, are also complex living things composed of various parts that enable their growth and survival.
- Viruses have raised debate about their status as living things since they don't contain cells like all other life forms do.
- Corpses, while they are the remnants of living things, cease to have a cellular or organic process working inside their tissues after death.
- Some might question if AI has made or can create non organic synthetic systems so they resemble as though their behaving and truly organic complex living thing entities