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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.

The homology of metameres. See Metamere. Gegenbaur.

One of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed.

Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation; as, metameric segmentation.

The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.

The muscular system of one metamere of an articulate.

A metamere of the vertebrate skeleton; an osteomere; a vertebra. Owen.

One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal.

of the divisions, rings, or joints into which many animal bodies are divided; a somite; a metamere; a somatome. Segment gear, a piece for receiving or communicating reciprocating motion from or to a cogwheel, consisting of a sector of a circular gear, or ring, having cogs on the periphery, or face. -- Segment of a lin…

ial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic, a.