metameric
Americanadjective
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Zoology. Also metameral
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consisting of metameres.
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pertaining to metamerism.
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Chemistry. of, relating to, or characteristic of metamerism.
adjective
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divided into or consisting of metameres See also metamerism
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of or concerned with metamerism
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One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah
It is important to notice that the metameric plan of growth of Chaetopods is still preserved.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various
It is possible to have bilateral symmetry without a metameric arrangement of parts, as in the mussel and the cuttle-fish; but metameric segmentation without complete or reduced bilateral symmetry does not occur.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
It is a diacid phenol, resembling, and metameric with, pyrocatechin and resorcin.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H by Project Gutenberg
The renal organ of the rabbit, some time before birth, displays a metameric arrangement of its parts; but this disappears, as development proceeds, into the compact kidney of the adult.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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