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Bilateral vs Bilaterian - What's the difference?

bilateral | bilaterian |

As an adjective bilateral

is bilateral.

As a noun bilaterian is

(biology) any animal that has bilateral symmetry, collectively grouped in the clade bilateria.

bilateral

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having two sides
  • Involving both sides equally.
  • (of an agreement) Binding on both of the two parties involved.
  • Having bilateral symmetry.
  • (anthropology) Involving descent or ascent regardless of sex and side of the family.

    • Derived terms

    * isobilateral

    bilaterian

    English

    (Bilateria)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) Any animal that has bilateral symmetry, collectively grouped in the clade Bilateria.
  • * 2005 , N. S. Sharma, Continuity And Evolution Of Animals , page 91,
    • Whatever the phylogenetic relationship among bilaterians' and the diploblastic phyla, there was clearly a significant expansion in genomic information within the internode that connects the ' bilaterian clade to other branches.
  • * 2007', J. W. Valentine, ''Seeing ghosts: Neoproterozoic '''bilaterian body plans'', Patricia Vickers-Rich, Patricia Komarower (editors), ''The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota , [page 372],
    • Lacking body cavities and both circulatory and excretory organs, with subepidermal nerve plexuses and 'brains' represented, if at all, by thickened anterior commissures, and with simple reproductive set-ups, acoels come close to representing a model stem ancestor for bilaterians .
  • * 2010 , José Xavier-Neto, Marcos Sawada Simoes-Costa, Rodrigo Abe Castro, Hozana Andrade Castillo, Allysson Coelho Sampaio, Ana Paula Azambuja, Chapter 1.1: Evolutionary Origins of Hearts'', Nadia Rosenthal, Richard P. Harvey (editors), ''Heart Development and Regeneration , Volume 1, page 12,
    • In most bilaterians , the gut musculature and most vascular muscles derive from the mesoderm.

    Derived terms

    * urbilaterian