macroorganism

[ mak-roh-awr-guh-niz-uhm ]

noun

1. an organism that can be seen with the naked eye.

Word History and Origins

Origin of macroorganism¹

macro- + organism

Example Sentences

Microevil, the murder of an individual child, becomes part of the macroorganism: all the evils breathe the same air, they have the same circulatory system.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stowed along with the humans in the vast body of the macroorganism would be domestic animals, plants, raw materials, machines and computers, as well as microfilms of all the books in the Library of Congress.

From Time Magazine Archive