mindmap root((MULTI)) multicellular Consisting of many cells.
🌱Multicellular organisms—fungi, plants, and animals—have specialized cells that perform different functions. 🌳Multicellular organisms are distinguished from the very primitive single-celled organisms—bacteria, algae, amoebas, etc. Even sponges, simple as they are, have specialized cell types such as digestive cells. In complex multicellular organisms, only the surface cells can exchange substances with the external environment, so the organisms have developed transport systems such as the circulatory system, in which the blood brings gases and nutrients to the cells and removes waste products from them. multidisciplinary Involving two or more subject areas.
🌱Her favorite class was Opera, a multidisciplinary class taught jointly by a music professor and a literature professor. 🌳A discipline is a field of study. So a multidisciplinary （or interdisciplinary） course is a team-taught course in which students are asked to understand a single subject as it's seen by two or more traditional disciplines. Multidisciplinary teaching can open students' eyes to different views of a subject that they had never considered before. A multidisciplinary panel discussion, on the other hand, presents views from scholars in different fields but may leave any merging of the information to the audience. multifarious Having or occurring in great variety; diverse.
🌱Natives put the coconut palm to multifarious uses: using the nuts for eating, the juice for drinking, the wood for building huts, the leaves for thatch, the fiber for mats, and the shells for utensils. 🌳Multifarious is a rather grand word, probably not for everyday use, but when you want to emphasize great variety—such as the huge number of uses to which a state-of-the-art cell phone can be put—it can be effective. Dictionary fans are constantly amazed by the multifarious meanings of the word set （47 of them in one unabridged dictionary）, and thesaurus lovers may marvel at the multifarious synonyms for drunk. multilateral Involving more than two nations or parties.
🌱A couple of times a year, representatives of the large industrial democracies meet for a round of multilateral trade negotiations. 🌳Since lateral means "side" （See LATER,） multilateral means basically "many-sided." The philosophy of multilateralism claims that the best solutions generally result when as many of the world's nations as possible are involved in discussions, and multilateralists often favor strengthening the United Nations. Today multilateralism can be seen at work in, for example, the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the International Criminal Court. But the U.S. doesn't always join the major multilateral organizations, instead often behaving as if a unilateral approach—that is, going it alone—was best for the interests of a powerful nation.