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

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Etymology

Origin of metameric

First recorded in 1840–50; metamere + -ic

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Example Sentences

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metameric

In metamerically segmented animals the 322 appearance of the cavities of these sacs is synchronous with, and indeed determines, the appearance of metameric segmentation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

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

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

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