living thing

angličtina

podstatné jméno

význam

1. živý organismus
   • ANIMAL (Lat. animalis, from anima, breath, soul), a term first used as a noun or adjective to denote a living thing, but now used to designate one branch of living things as opposed to the other branch known as plants.
   • Living things can be found in every type of habitat on Earth—on land and in lakes, rivers, and oceans.
   • The Italian physician and poet Francesco Redi was one of the first to question the spontaneous origin of living things.
   • Aristotle suggested that living things could be arranged in a graded scale, starting from plants at the bottom and ending with humans at the top.

externí odkazy

• Slovníky v OneLook. Heslo living thing.
• Wikidata: living thing
• Google Books. Vyhledávání výrazů "living thing", "living things" pro angličtinu.
• Wikizdroje. Vyhledávání výrazů "living thing", "living things".
• Český národní korpus. Vyhledávání skrze KonText, korpus intercorp_v15_en, heslo living thing (nutno zadat ručně).