metazoan
noun
any animal of the group Metazoa.
metazoans
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pluralof metazoan.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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It focuses specifically on benthic metazoans — multicellular animals living at the bottom of the ocean.
From Scientific American ● May 26, 2023
But many parasitologists like Wood focus on multicellular metazoans: animals that encompass hundreds of thousands of species, including up to 300,000 different types of worms that parasitize vertebrates alone.
From Scientific American ● May 18, 2022
Together, these innovations appear to contribute to the increased amount and complex patterning of Smad2/3-mediated signalling in deuterostomes compared with protostomes and other metazoans.
From Nature ● Nov. 17, 2015
The phylogenetic tree of metazoans, or animals, branches into parazoans with no tissues and eumetazoans with specialized tissues.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Later, when the time is right, there may be fusion and symbiosis among the bits, and then we will see eukaryotic thought, metazoans of thought, huge interliving coral shoals of thought.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
