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metamere |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: metamere n : one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally [syn: {somite}]
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