"metasome" meaning in English

See metasome in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: metasomes [plural]
Etymology: From meta- (“beyond, after”) + -some (“body, segment”). Etymology templates: {{m|en|meta-||beyond, after}} meta- (“beyond, after”), {{m|en|-some||body, segment}} -some (“body, segment”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} metasome (plural metasomes)
  1. A segment of the body of an animal, generally the rearmost one.
    Sense id: en-metasome-en-noun-IyScMnS~
  2. A replacing mineral where one mineral grows in size at the expense of another.
    Sense id: en-metasome-en-noun-~SibpK0~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 36 64
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: protosome, mesosome

Inflected forms

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