organic
adjective /ɔːˈɡænɪk/
/ɔːrˈɡænɪk/
[usually before noun]- enlarge image
- organic cheese/vegetables/wine, etc.
- an organic farmer/gardener
- organic farming/horticulture
- The farm went fully organic in 1996.
WordfinderTopics Farmingb2, Cooking and eatingb2- blight
- cereal
- crop
- genetically modified
- grain
- harvest
- monoculture
- organic
- staple
- yield
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- go
- …
- completely
- fully
- totally
- …
- buy organic
- Improve the soil by adding organic matter.
- (chemistry) relating to chemical compounds that contain carbon and mainly or ultimately come from living things
- organic compounds
- (specialist) connected with the organs of the body
- organic disease
- (formal) consisting of different parts that are all connected to each other
- the view of society as an organic whole
- (formal) happening in a slow and natural way, rather than suddenly
- the organic growth of foreign markets
Word Originlate Middle English: via Latin from Greek organikos ‘relating to an organ or instrument’.