organics
USor-GAN-iks/ɔɹˈɡænɪks/UKaw-GAN-iks/ɔːˈɡænɪks/
- 1Plural of organic.
The farm sells its organics directly to restaurants in the city.
Curbside recycling programs separate organics from other household waste.
Note
A plural that does triple duty, because the noun behind it has three separate lives. A chemist's organics are organic compounds; a grocer's are organic foods; and wherever living beings are set against robots or holograms, organics are the living ones. Nothing in the form tells these apart, so the surrounding words must. Name the field or setting early, and the reader will sort out which organics you mean.
organics is a form of organic
organic, noun: A food produced without artificial agrichemicals. Full entry
- Forms
- organicorganics plural
- Spelling
- organic → organics: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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