The Collaborative International Dictionary
Multicellular \Mul`ti*cel"lu*lar\, a. Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. (context biology of an organism English) That has many cells, often differentiated in function. n. Such an organism
WordNet
adj. consisting of many cells; "multicellular organisms"
Usage examples of "multicellular".
On Earth, early microbial life split into eubacteria and archaebacteria, and all multicellular organisms arose from the archaebacterial lineage.
The petioles bear many multicellular hairs, some of which near the blade are surmounted, according to Nitschke, by a few rounded cells, which appear to be rudimentary glands.
Its biochemistry, as far as could be deduced from spectrography, was an ordinary carbon-based multicellular form.
With the evolution of multicellular organisms, both the range of possible behaviours and the organizational problems the organism has to solve increase.
The footstalks of this latter species bear multicellular hairs, which we have good reason to believe represent aborted tentacles.
Bacteria and viruses have very simple genomes compared with those of multicellular organisms, so naturally their genomes were the first to be sequenced.
Both the oceans and the land harbor large populations of protist and multicellular autotrophs.
The antennae, which are united for a short distance at their bases, bear on their outer surfaces and summits numerous, long, multicellular hairs, surmounted by glands.
The other or dorsal surface is convex, and terminates in two long prolongations, formed of several rows of cells, containing chlorophyll, and bearing, chiefly on [page 399] the outside, six or seven long, pointed, multicellular bristles.
One-celled organisms evolved into multicellular colonies, elaborating their various parts into specialized organ systems.
Originally, simple inorganic compounds gave rise to more complicated substances, which in the course of time evolved self-replication and progressed through single-celled organisms to the advanced, multicellular life forms of today.
Likewise, Laszlo reminds us that expanded agency, even in its living, self-organizing form (as autopoiesis), cannot account for evolution either: "Autopoiesis is not evolution, however, even if autopoietic cellular automata models can simulate certain evolutionary phenomena such as the convergence of cells into multicellular systems.