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Metazoan Moderate

Metazoan has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
1

any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges

2

Any animal that undergoes development from an embryo stage with two or three tissue layers, namely the ectoderm, endoderm, and sometimes mesoderm.

Adjective
1

Having to do with animals that develop from an embryo with three tissue layers.

See Also
embryo tissue parazoan development metazooplankton ectoderm mesoderm endoderm
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Broader Terms (hypernyms)
animal
Rhyming Words
oan moan loan koan joan ioan goan eoan zoan roan sloan groan genoan ceroan bikoan panoan tanoan bemoan ohioan wacoan
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