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metazoan

metazoan noun: any animal that is multicellular.

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.

Adjective

metazoan (not comparable)

  1. Having to do with animals that are multicellular.
  2. Having to do with animals that develop from an embryo with three tissue layers.

metazoan meaning in Tamil

metazoan in Tamil

கடைக்கலவுரு, பலசெல் விலங்குகள்

Synonyms of metazoan

Forms of metazoan

pluralmetazoa
pluralmetazoans

Plural of metazoan: metazoa or metazoans

Origin of metazoan

From Translingual Metazoa + English -an.

Words formed from metazoan

Questions about metazoan

What does metazoan mean?
Metazoan means any animal that is multicellular.
What is metazoan in Tamil?
Metazoan in Tamil is கடைக்கலவுரு, பலசெல் விலங்குகள். See Metazoan meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is metazoan?
Metazoan can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of metazoan?
The plural of metazoan is metazoa.

Words near metazoan in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metazoan (page history and authors); metazoan (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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