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# multicellular

adjective (multicellular)

«multicellular» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

Made of many cells. Living things like animals, plants and most fungi are multicellular. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multicellular/#m1)

### In the lessons

A science word: in biology, living things are sorted into single-celled (unicellular), like bacteria, and multicellular, like humans, trees and mushrooms. In multicellular living things, different cells do different jobs (muscle cells, nerve cells, leaf cells).

### Examples

- Humans are multicellular organisms with trillions of cells. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multicellular/#x1)
- A bacterium is single-celled, but a frog is multicellular. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multicellular/#x2)
- Plants and animals are multicellular. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multicellular/#x3)
- In multicellular life, cells share out the jobs. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multicellular/#x4)
- Some seaweeds are multicellular and some are tiny single cells. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multicellular/#x5)
- The first multicellular living things appeared long after bacteria. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multicellular/#x6)
- Is a mushroom multicellular? Yes, it is made of many cells. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multicellular/#x7)

### Note

Opposite: "unicellular" or "single-celled". Prefix "multi-" means "many". Pronounced "mul-tee-SELL-yoo-lar". Adjective only.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «multicellular» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multicellular/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«multicellular» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/multicellular.html) on Mova free.