metazoan
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From translingual Metazoa + -an.
Noun
[edit]metazoan (plural metazoans)
- (zoology) Any animal that is multicellular.
- Hypernyms: animal, < eukaryote, < organism
- Coordinate terms: protozoan (eukaryotic, usually unicellular); prokaryote (noneukaryotic, unicellular)
- (zoology, deprecated) Any animal that undergoes development from an embryo stage with two or three tissue layers, namely the ectoderm, endoderm, and sometimes mesoderm.
Related terms
[edit]- eumetazoan
- Metazoa
- metazoal (adj)
- parazoan
Translations
[edit](zoology) animals with differentiated tissues
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Adjective
[edit]metazoan (not comparable)
- Having to do with animals that are multicellular.
- Having to do with animals that develop from an embryo with three tissue layers.
Synonyms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit](zoology) relating to metazoa
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