Definition of metameric in English:
metameric
adjective ˌmɛtəˈmɛrɪkˌmɛdəˈmɛrɪk
Zoology Relating to or consisting of several similar segments or somites.
Example sentencesExamples
- Indeed, there is: somites in metameric animals usually form sequentially from a posterior growth zone, a process found again in all three branches of the bilaterians.
- Notably, the oldest known Early Cambrian chordate Yunnanozoon had its metameric muscular units located dorsally of the notochord, although its body was laterally compressed.
- The term iteration is used to denote processes that result in both metameric segments and repeated ectodermal skeletal structures.
- The body divided into a distinct cephalon and metameric trunk.
- An organism is considered metameric when its body is mostly formed of serially repeated anatomical units called metameres.
Definition of metameric in US English:
metameric
adjectiveˌmedəˈmerikˌmɛdəˈmɛrɪk
1Zoology
Relating to or consisting of several similar segments or somites.
Example sentencesExamples
- The body divided into a distinct cephalon and metameric trunk.
- The term iteration is used to denote processes that result in both metameric segments and repeated ectodermal skeletal structures.
- Indeed, there is: somites in metameric animals usually form sequentially from a posterior growth zone, a process found again in all three branches of the bilaterians.
- Notably, the oldest known Early Cambrian chordate Yunnanozoon had its metameric muscular units located dorsally of the notochord, although its body was laterally compressed.
- An organism is considered metameric when its body is mostly formed of serially repeated anatomical units called metameres.
2Chemistry
dated Having the same proportional composition and molecular weight, but different functional groups and chemical properties; isomeric.
Example sentencesExamples
- And chemists use meta - to differentiate certain metameric chemical compounds (such as metacresol, paracresol, orthocresol).