Metamere

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of the homologous segments, lying in a longitudinal series, that compose the body of certain animals, such as earthworms and lobsters. Also called somite.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment or somite.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of loeven's larva.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In zoology, one of a longitudinal series of parts which are serially homologous with one another. See metameric, metamerism.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    segment   
    Cross Reference
    ambulacral metameres   
    Variant
    loeven's larva   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    segment   
     
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