life form

Or life-form

noun

life form

biology the characteristic overall form and structure of a mature organism on the basis of which it can be classified
any living creature
(in science fiction) an alien

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First recorded in 1850–55

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Examples have not been reviewed.

Rivers do not resemble life forms as we’re used to them, though the language of rivers suggests they could.

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If simple life forms are found to exist that is no guarantee that more complex life forms are out there.

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Keeping in mind the arc of the narrative, Saxon realized the imagined life form needed to fit in a backpack to travel with Yuri wherever she goes.

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The satellite asks the buoy, “Are you a life form?”

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Space colonisers come face-to-face with a terrifying life form while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station.

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