metamere Meaning, Definition & Usage

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

WordNet

Met"a*mere noun
Etymology
Pref. meta- + -mere.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913