metameric

American  

[met-uh-mer-ik] / ˌmɛt əˈmɛr ɪk /

adjective

1. Zoology. Also metameral

   1. consisting of metameres.

   2. pertaining to metamerism.

2. Chemistry. of, relating to, or characteristic of metamerism.

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metameric British  

/ ˌmɛtəˈmɛrɪk /

adjective

1. divided into or consisting of metameres See also metamerism

2. of or concerned with metamerism

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Other Word Forms

• intermetameric
  adjective
• metamerically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of metameric

First recorded in 1840–50; metamere + -ic

Example Sentences

It is consciously and admittedly an attempt to apply Geoffroy's principle of the unity of plan and composition to the three great metameric groups, the Annelida, Arthropoda, and Vertebrata.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

As part of the wider idea of the metameric repetition of parts it had some scientific worth, but the theory was pushed too far, and the facts were twisted to suit it.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

In other respects Sedgwick's speculations link on more closely to the Gastræa theory, for one of his main contentions is that the blastopore or Urmund is homologous throughout at least the three metameric phyla.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

But as certainly as we have no such metameric segmentation, as this older view implies, in the brain-case of the frog, so quite as certainly is metameric segmentation evident in its branchial arches.

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