multicelled
adjective
mul·ti·celled
ˌməl-tē-ˈseld 
-ˌtī-
variants
or multicell
ˌməl-tē-ˈsel
or multi-celled
or multi-cell
-ˌtī-
: having, consisting of, or involving more than one and usually many cells
a multicell battery
multi-cell thunderstorms
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Levin and Douglas Blackiston, a member of his laboratory at the Allen Discovery Center of Tufts University, brought together nascent skin and muscle cells from a frog embryo and shaped the multicelled assemblies by hand.
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multicelled
adjective
mul·ti·celled
ˌməl-tē-ˈseld, ˌməl-ˌtī-
variants
or multi-celled
: multicellular
multicelled animals
a multi-celled organism
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