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metamere
CIDE DICTIONARY
metamere, n. [Pref. meta- + -mere.].
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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
metamere, n. Zool. each of several similar segments, that contain the same internal structures, of an animal body.
Etymology
META- + Gk meros part
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