Definition of "metazoic" []

• Of, or relating to the metazoa (adjective)

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• "The gut is the oldest of all the organs of the metazoic body, and it leads us back to the earliest age of the formation of organs -- to the first section of the Laurentian period."
• "This is clearly the oldest and original form of the metazoic embryo."
• "As the metazoic embryo in its earlier stages of development is not yet able to obtain its food and so build up the frame, the necessary material has to be stored up in the ovum."