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metazoa

metazoa is the plural of metazoan.

metazoa is the plural of metazoon.

Meaning of metazoan

Noun

metazoan (plural metazoa or metazoans)

  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.

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Meaning of metazoon

Noun

metazoon (plural metazoa or metazoons)

  1. (obsolete) One of the Metazoa.

Words formed from metazoa

Questions about metazoa

What is metazoa the plural of?
Metazoa is the plural of metazoan.

Words near metazoa in the dictionary

  1. metazachlor
  2. metazellerite
  3. metazeunerite
  4. metazincin
  5. metazincins
  6. metazoa
  7. metazoal
  8. metazoan
  9. metazoans
  10. metazocine
  11. metazoic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metazoa (page history and authors); metazoan (page history and authors); metazoon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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