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metazoan

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 1.68 in modern English

Syllables
meta-zoan
IPA
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any animal that is multicellular.

noun

Any animal that undergoes development from an embryo stage with two or three tissue layers, namely the ectoderm, endoderm, and sometimes mesoderm.

Obsolete

adj

Having to do with animals that are multicellular.

adj

Having to do with animals that develop from an embryo with three tissue layers.

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.

Usage

Inflected Forms

metazoa (plural) metazoans (plural)

Derived Forms

micrometazoan nonmetazoan premetazoan urmetazoan

Frequently Paired Words

eumetazoan Metazoa metazoal parazoan protozoan prokaryote

Synonyms

metazoic

Questions

What does metazoan mean?
Any animal that is multicellular.
Where does metazoan come from?
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.

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