multicellular

See also: multi-cellular

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *mel-der.

Proto-Indo-European *-tósder.

Proto-Indo-European *ml̥tós?

Proto-Italic *moltos

Latin multus

Latin multīder.

Middle English multi-

English multi-

English cellular

English multicellular

From multi- + cellular.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmʌl.tiˈsɛl.ju.lə(ɹ)/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

multicellular (not comparable)

1. (biology, of an organism) That has many cells, often differentiated in function.

Antonyms

• unicellular
• monocellular

Derived terms

• intramulticellular
• multicellularity

Translations

having many cells

• Albanian: shumëqelizor (sq)
• Armenian: բազմաբջիջ (hy) (bazmabǰiǰ)
• Asturian: multicelular
• Azerbaijani: çoxhüceyrəli
• Belarusian: шматкле́тачны (šmatkljétačny), мнагакле́тачны (mnahakljétačny)
• Bulgarian: многокле́тъчен (mnogoklétăčen)
• Catalan: pluricel·lular (ca), multicel·lular (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 多細胞的 / 多细胞的 (zh) (duōxìbāo de)

• Czech: mnohobuněčný (cs)
• Danish: flercellet (da), multicellulær
• Dutch: meercellig (nl)
• Finnish: monisoluinen (fi)
• French: multicellulaire (fr)
• Galician: multicelular (gl)
• Georgian: მრავალუჯრედიანი (mravaluǯrediani)
• German: vielzellig (de)
• Hindi: बहुकोशिकीय (bahukośikīya)
• Hungarian: többsejtű (hu)
• Italian: pluricellulare (it), multicellulare
• Japanese: 多細胞の (たさいぼうの, tasaibō no)
• Korean: 다세포의 (ko) (dasepoui)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: firexaneyî

• Latvian: daudzšūnu
• Macedonian: повеќеклеточен (poveḱekletočen)
• Manx: yl-chillagagh
• Māori: pūtautini
• Marathi: बहुपेशीय (bahupeśīya)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: flercellet (no)

• Persian: پریاخته (fa) (poryāxte), چندسلولی (čandseluli)
• Polish: wielokomórkowy (pl)
• Portuguese: multicelular (pt)
• Romanian: pluricelular (ro)
• Russian: многокле́точный (ru) (mnogoklétočnyj), многоклетево́й (mnogokletevój)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: вишеста̀ничан

  Latin: višestàničan (sh)

• Slovak: mnohobunkový (sk)
• Slovene: mnogoceličen, večceličen
• Spanish: multicelular, pluricelular (es)
• Swedish: multicellulär (sv), flercellig (sv)
• Telugu: బహుకణ (bahukaṇa)
• Ukrainian: багатокліти́нний (uk) (bahatoklitýnnyj)
• Welsh: amlgellog

Noun

multicellular (plural multicellulars)

1. Such an organism