Found 2 items, similar to Metamere.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: metamere
metamere
n : one of a series of similar body segments into which some
animals are divided longitudinally [syn:
somite]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Metamere
Metamere
\Met"a*mere\, n. [Pref. meta- + -mere.] (Biol.)
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
.
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