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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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
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)
If the student wants a perfect figure of metameric segmentation he should think of a train of precisely similar carriages, or a string of beads.
From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
In the true Chitonidae there are generally two apertures on each side, and in two species three or four, another instance of the tendency to metameric repetition in the group.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various
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
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