metamere

== English == === Etymology === From meta- +‎ -mere. === Noun === metamere (plural metameres) (biology) 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, such as in an earthworm Synonym: somite ==== Related terms ==== metamer (botany) metamerism === References === “metamere”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.