Definition of metamere

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Metamere (n.) 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..

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Osteocomma :: Osteocomma (n.) A metamere of the vertebrate skeleton; an osteomere; a vertebra.
Protosomite :: Protosomite (n.) One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal..
Metameric :: Metameric (a.) Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation; as, metameric segmentation..
Somite :: Somite (n.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere..
Homodynamy :: Homodynamy (n.) The homology of metameres. See Metamere.
Segment :: Segment (n.) One of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome..
Myotome :: Myotome (n.) The muscular system of one metamere of an articulate.
Merosome :: Merosome (n.) One of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed..
Metamere :: Metamere (n.) 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..
Metamerism :: Metamerism (n.) The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.
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