"metamere" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: metameres [plural]
Etymology: meta- + -mere Etymology templates: {{confix|en|meta|mere}} meta- + -mere Head templates: {{en-noun}} metamere (plural metameres)
  1. (biology) 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 or somite. Categories (topical): Biology Related terms: metamerism

Inflected forms

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