Hypertext Webster Gateway: "metamere"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Metamere \Met"a*mere\, n. [Pref. meta- + -mere.] (Biol.)
One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and
plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one
another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an
earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of {Loeven's
larva}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
metamere
n : one of a series of similar body segments into which some
animals are divided longitudinally [syn: {somite}]
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