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
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)
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)
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
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
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