| n. | 1. | (Biol.) 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. |
| Noun | 1. | metamere - one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally Synonyms: somite |