Usually means: Hypothetical ancestor, multicellular organism stage.
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  1. gastraea: Merriam-Webster
  2. gastraea: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Gastraea, gastraea: Wordnik
  4. gastraea: Wiktionary
  5. gastraea: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. Gastraea, gastraea: Dictionary.com
  7. Gastraea: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Gastraea: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Gastraea: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. gastraea: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Gastraea: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gastraea)

noun:  (biology, obsolete) A hypothetical animal form assumed by Ernst Haeckel as the ancestor of all metazoic animals.

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