Wordnet Dictionary

Welcome

Wordnet Dictionary
Noun organ has 6 senses
  1. organ - a fully differentiated structural and functional unit in an animal that is specialized for some particular function
    --1 is a kind of     body part
    --1 has part: lobe
    --1 has particulars:
     ovipositor; ctene; wing; foot, invertebrate foot; sucker; stinger; contractile organ, contractor; primordium, anlage; vital organ, vitals; effector; external organ; internal organ, viscus; sense organ, sensory receptor, receptor; tongue, lingua, glossa, clapper; speech organ, vocal organ; lens, crystalline lens; gland, secretory organ, secretor, secreter; organelle, cell organ; end organ; reproductive organ, sex organ; target organ; taret organ; erectile organ
  2. organ - a government agency or instrument devoted to the performance of some specific function; "The Census Bureau is an organ of the Commerce Department"
    --2 is a kind of     agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, office, authority
  3. electric organ, electronic organ, Hammond organ, organ - (music) an electronic simulation of a pipe organ
    --3 is a kind of electronic instrument
  4. organ - a periodical that is published by a special interest group; "the organ of the communist party"
    --4 is a kind of     periodical
    --4 has particulars: house organ
  5. organ, pipe organ - wind instrument whose sound is produced by means of pipes arranged in sets supplied with air from a bellows and controlled from a large complex musical keyboard
    --5 is a kind of wind instrument, wind
    --5 has parts:
     keyboard; organ pipe, pipe, pipework; pedal, treadle, foot pedal, foot lever; piano keyboard, fingerboard, clavier; stop
  6. harmonium, organ, reed organ - a free-reed instrument in which air is forced through the reeds by bellows
    --6 is a kind of free-reed instrument
,
TOP