Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bilaterian

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: bi-la-te-ri-an
IPA

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

5

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any animal that has bilateral symmetry, collectively grouped in the clade Bilateria.

Example Sentences

"Whatever the phylogenetic relationship among bilaterians and the diploblastic phyla, there was clearly a significant expansion in genomic information within the internode that connects the bilaterian clade to other branches."
"Lacking body cavities and both circulatory and excretory organs, with subepidermal nerve plexuses and 'brains' represented, if at all, by thickened anterior commissures, and with simple reproductive set-ups, acoels come close to representing a model stem ancestor for bilaterians."
"In most bilaterians, the gut musculature and most vascular muscles derive from the mesoderm."

Etymology

Compare bilateral.

Inflected Forms

bilaterians (plural) bilateria (plural)

Derived Forms

nonbilaterian prebilaterian urbilaterian

Questions

What does bilaterian mean?: Any animal that has bilateral symmetry, collectively grouped in the clade Bilateria.
Where does bilaterian come from?: Compare bilateral.

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