metazoan

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
21
Letters
8

Definition of metazoan

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. Any animal that is multicellular.
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noun

  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.

adj

  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.

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Etymology

From translingual Metazoa + -an.

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