Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun metazoa

1 sense of metazoa

Sense 1
Metazoa, subkingdom Metazoa -- (multicellular animals having cells differentiated into tissues and organs and usually a digestive cavity and nervous system)
       => subkingdom -- ((biology) a taxonomic group comprising a major division of a kingdom)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun metazoan

1 sense of metazoan

Sense 1
metazoan -- (any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and sponges)
       => animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna -- (a living organism characterized by voluntary movement)