metamere

American

[met-uh-meer] / ˈmɛt əˌmɪər /

noun

a somite.

metamere British

/ mɪˈtæmərəl, ˈmɛtəˌmɪə /

noun

Also called: somite. one of the similar body segments into which earthworms, crayfish, and similar animals are divided longitudinally

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Other Word Forms

metameral adjective

Etymology

Origin of metamere

First recorded in 1875–80; meta- + -mere

Example Sentences

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One bead, one carriage, one vertebra, would be a metamere.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Merosome, mer′ō-sōm, n. one of the serial segments of which a body is composed, as the ring of a worm, a metamere, a somite.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

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