metamere – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
metamere
n.
somite, longitudinal body segment (Zoology)
Metamerism
Metamerism has at least three meanings:
- Metamerism (biology) is the property of having repeated segments, as in annelids; a concern of zoology and developmental biology
- The chemical property of having the same proportion of atomic components in different arrangements (obsolete, replaced with isomer)
- Metamerism (color), relates to two colors and their relation under different light sources. It also defines the capability of humans to recognise different colours and their relation under different light colours (sun, bulb, neon,...)
metamere
Noun
1. one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally
(synonym) somite
(hypernym) segment
métamère
nm.
metamere, somite, longitudinal body segment (Zoology)
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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