Definitions for Metazoa

Metazoa Met·a·zo·a

Spelling: [met-uh-zoh-uh]
IPA: /ˌmɛt əˈzoʊ ə/

Metazoa is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 103 anagrams from letters in Metazoa (aaemotz).

Definitions for Metazoa

noun

  1. a zoological group comprising the multicellular animals.

Origin of Metazoa

From New Latin, dating back to 1870-75; See origin at meta-, -zoa

Examples for Metazoa

The chief motor organs in the Metazoa are the muscles which constitute the "flesh" of the body.

Minot had tried to prove that the death of Metazoa is due to the greater differentiation and specialization of their tissues.

But among the Metazoa we find this form of individuality only in the lower (and generally stationary) stages of development.

In general, however symbiosis is rarer in the Metazoa than in the metaphyta.

Parasitism in the Metazoa (in all groups) is even more frequent and interesting than in the metaphyta.

In the systematic section of this work the embryological history of the Metazoa has been treated.

The gastrula stage was the palingenetic repetition of the ancestral form of all Metazoa, the Gastræa.

There are but few groups of the Metazoa which are not provided with optic organs of greater or less complexity.

In the lower and higher classes of the Metazoa the muscle amounts to no more than a thin layer of flesh underneath the skin.

These are presented to us when we study the early stages in the development of the embryos of the Metazoa in general.

Word Value for Metazoa
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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