Dictionary

metazoan en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Translingual Metazoa Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English metazoan From Translingual Metazoa + English -an.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Having to do with animals that are multicellular.
2. (not-comparable) Having to do with animals that develop from an embryo with three tissue layers.

Relateds

parazoan

Synonyms

metazoic

Translations (3)

fr métazoaire ((zoology) relating to metazoa) · fi monisoluinen ((zoology) relating to metazoa) · pl wielokomórkowy ((zoology) relating to metazoa)

metazoan en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree Translingual Metazoa Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Proto-Italic *-ānos Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English metazoan From Translingual Metazoa + English -an.

Meanings

1. Any animal that is multicellular.
2. (obsolete) Any animal that undergoes development from an embryo stage with two or three tissue layers, namely the ectoderm, endoderm, and sometimes mesoderm.

Forms

Coordinates

prokaryote · protozoan

Deriveds

premetazoan · nonmetazoan · urmetazoan · micrometazoan

Hypernyms

animal · organism · eukaryote

Relateds

metazoal · Metazoa · parazoan · eumetazoan

Translations (4)

fr métazoaire ((zoology) animals with differentiated tissues) · es metazoo ((zoology) animals with differentiated tissues) · pl wielokomórkowiec ((zoology) animals with differentiated tissues) · fi monisoluinen eläin ((zoology) animals with differentiated tissues)