metazoan

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English

Etymology

From translingual Metazoa +‎ -an.

Noun

metazoan (plural metazoans)

  1. (zoology) Any animal that is multicellular.
    Hypernyms: animal, < eukaryote, < organism
    Coordinate terms: protozoan (eukaryotic, usually unicellular); prokaryote (noneukaryotic, unicellular)
  2. (zoology, deprecated) Any animal that undergoes development from an embryo stage with two or three tissue layers, namely the ectoderm, endoderm, and sometimes mesoderm.

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Adjective

metazoan (not comparable)

  1. Having to do with animals that are multicellular.
  2. Having to do with animals that develop from an embryo with three tissue layers.

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