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# multicellular

«multicellular» in Mova's school dictionary: **Made of many cells** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (multicellular)

### meaning for a pupil

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

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «multicellular» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/multicellular/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.