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

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

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

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

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 H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But the metameric segmentation in the rabbit's organism is not nearly so marked as that of an earthworm, for instance, which is visibly a chain of rings.

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

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