metameryn.
/mᵻˈtam(ə)ri/, /mɛˈtam(ə)ri/, U.S. /məˈtæm(ə)ri/ Zoology and Botany.
= metamerism n.2
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > regions comprising segments > consisting of segments
metamerism1877
metamerization1880
metamery1887
vertebration1888
1887 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 27 610 All those cases of metamery in the animal kingdom which do not fall under the head of strobilation.
1915 Proc. Royal Soc. 1914–15 B. 88 472 A few words may be said about the relation of the mesectoderm to the metamery of the body.
1929 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 16 477 Such foliar organs result from a suppression of the normal ‘metamery’ (i.e., segmentation) characteristic of the foliage leaf.
1967 Systematic Zool. 16 156/2 Many..consider the serial repetition of certain organs, without corresponding coelomic subdivisions and without the developmental characteristics of the annelid segmentation..merely regularization metamery or pseudometamery.
1999 Developmental Biol. 212 150 This study concerns relations between the generation of cortical metamery and the formation of the fission line in an amicronuclear..ciliate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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