Metazoa
noun
a zoological group comprising the multicellular animals.
metazoic
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a word derived from
Metazoa.
Example Sentences
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Different investigators found that animal tissue is also composed of cells; and between 1835 and 1839 Schwann and Schleiden formulated the law that every metazoic organism is made of cells, and starts from a cell.
From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by Austin ?Malley
Gas′trula, that embryonic form of metazoic animals which consists of a two-layered sac enclosing a central cavity and having an opening at one end:—pl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
This is clearly the oldest and original form of the metazoic embryo.
From The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel
Monoblastic, mon-ō-blas′tik, adj. pertaining to that condition of the metazoic embryo in which a single germinal layer is alone represented.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Mesoblast, mes′o-blast, n. the middle one of the three germinal layers of any metazoic embryo between the epiblast and the hypoblast: the mesoderm.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
