Crossword clues for metazoan
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Metazoan \Met`a*zo"an\, n.; pl. Metazoans. (Zo["o]l.) One of the Metazoa.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Having to do with animals that develop from an embryo with three tissue layers. 2 Having to do with animals that are multicellular. n. 1 (context zoology English) Any animal that undergoes development from an embryo stage with three tissue layers, namely the ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. The term applies to all animals except the sponges. 2 (context zoology English) Any animal that is multicellular.
WordNet
n. any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges
[also: metazoa (pl)]
Usage examples of "metazoan".
Fourteen species of autotrophic nannoflagellates, twenty heterotrophic flagellates, forty heterotrophic dinoflagellates, and several metazoans, including polychaetes, amphipods, copepods, euphausids, and fish.
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.
At the beginning of the Phanerozoic, in the Cambrian period, metazoans with abundant hard parts also appear.
If the emergence of metazoans led to mass extinctions among microbial life, we have no record of them.
If we could understand this tendency, we would catch a glimpse of the process that brought single separate cells together for the construction of metazoans, culminating in the invention of roses, dolphins, and, of course, ourselves.
Humans, large terrestrial metazoans, fired by energy from microbial symbionts lodged in their cells, instructed by tapes of nucleic acid stretching back to the earliest live membranes, informed by neurons essentially the same as all the other neurons on earth, sharing structures with mastodons and lichens, living off the sun, are now in charge, running the place, for better or worse.
Cambrian metazoans were similarly soft bodied and therefore rarely preserved, far more abundant traces of their activities should have been found in the pre-Cambrian strata than has proved to be the case.
Fourteen species of autotrophic nannoflagellates, twenty heterotrophic flagellates, forty heterotrophic dinoflagellates, and several metazoans, including polychaetes, amphipods, copepods, euphausids, and fish.
Even the most conservative biologist knows different kinds of bacteria can cooperate and learn from each other—but many now understand that different species of metazoans, plants and animals like us, do much the same thing when they play their roles in any ecosystem.
There are many different varieties of pathogen: viruses, bacteria, fungi, pro-lists (formerly known as protozoa), and metazoans such as nematodes.
There are many different varieties of pathogen: viruses, bacteria, fungi, protists (formerly known as protozoa), and metazoans such as nematodes.