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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A terra introduced by Haeckel to designate a physiological individual as contrasted with a morphon or morphological individual.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) The physiological individual, characterized by definiteness and independence of function, in distinction from the morphological individual or morphon.

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  • noun science fiction A cyborg or robot.

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Back-formation from bionic.

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