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ning to a series; consisting of a series; appearing in successive parts or numbers; as, a serial work or publication. "Classification . . . may be more or less serial." H. Spencer.

The quality or state of succession in a series; sequence. H. Spenser.

In a series, or regular order; in a serial manner; as, arranged serially; published serially.

In two rows or series.

Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.

Arranged in many rows, or series, as the scales of a pine cone, or the leaves of the houseleek.

anged in exactly vertical ranks, as the leaves on stems of many kinds; -- opposed to curviserial.

Arranged in three vertical or spiral rows.

Having only one row or series.

e joints; also, a subdivision into parts at regular or irregular intervals as a result of serial intermission in growth, as in the cane, grasses, etc. Lindley.

; (Bookkeeping) a page in an account book; sometimes, two opposite pages bearing the same serial number.

rt, bears to the fundamental or general type on which the group is constituted. Owen. -- Serial homology (Biol.), representative or repetitive relation in the segments of the same organism, -- as in the lobster, where the parts follow each other in a straight line or series. Owen. See Homotypy. -- Special homology (B…

A term suggested by Haeckel to be instead of serial homology. See Homotype.

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

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

One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic, a.

Having one line or series; uniserial. -- U`ni*se"ri*ate*ly, adv.

One of the serial segments of the spinal column.