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adj
Having to do with animals that are multicellular.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Having to do with animals that develop from an embryo with three tissue layers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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noun
Any animal that is multicellular.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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Broader terms: animal, eukaryote, organism
noun
Any animal that undergoes development from an embryo stage with two or three tissue layers, namely the ectoderm, endoderm, and sometimes mesoderm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: biology, natural-sciences, zoology
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noun
any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna
History
Etymology tree Translingual Metazoa Proto-Indo-European *-nós Proto-Italic *-nos Latin -nus Latin -ānus Old French -ainder. Middle English -an English -an English metazoan From Translingual Metazoa + English -an.
Across languages
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