Metamere(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.
Metameric(a.) Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.
Metameric(a.) Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation; as, metameric segmentation.
Metamerically(adv.) In a metameric manner.
Metamerism(n.) The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.
Metamerism(n.) The state or quality of being metameric; also, the relation or condition of metameric compounds.
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