Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the Metazoa; any animal which has a gastrula stage, or which undergoes in the course of its development a process of delamination or of gastrulation, whether by emboly or by epiboly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Metazoa.
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- noun zoology One of the
Metazoa .
Etymologies
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New Latin.
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Examples
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Give an account of the amoeba, and compare it with a typical tissue cell in a metazoon (e.g., the rabbit).
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In the first place, the rabbit is a metazoon, one of the metazoa, i.e., a multicellular organism, as compared with the amoeba, which belongs to the protozoa or one-cell animals (Section
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