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1. relating to or derived from living matter:

生物の(↔ inorganic)

e.g. organic soils.

Chemistry relating to or denoting compounds containing carbon (other than simple binary compounds and salts) and chiefly or ultimately of biological origin. Compare with inorganic.

〖通例名詞の前で〗〘化〙 有機の, 炭素を含む

2. (of food or farming methods) produced or involving production without the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, or other artificial agents.

〖通例名詞の前で〗〈食物･栽培法が〉有機農法の, 有機栽培の, 無農薬の

3. Physiology relating to a bodily organ or organs.

〖名詞の前で〗器官の, 器質性の 〘医〙

Medicine (of a disease) affecting the structure of an organ.

4. denoting a relation between elements of something such that they fit together harmoniously as necessary parts of a whole:

〖名詞の前で〗有機的な, 相互に関連のある

e.g. the organic unity of the integral work of art.

characterized by continuous or natural development:

｟かたく｠ 〈変化･発達などが〉自然でゆっくりとした

e.g. companies expand as much by acquisition as by organic growth.

late Middle English: via Latin from Greek organikos ‘relating to an organ or instrument’.