Metamere

[metәmiә]

Definition

(noun.) one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally.

Edited by Lelia--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) 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.

Typed by Leigh