metamere

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

metamere metameres

Etymology

From meta- + -mere.

Related words

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