metameric

American  

[met-uh-mer-ik] / ˌmɛt əˈmɛr ɪk /

adjective

1. Zoology. Also metameral

   1. consisting of metameres.

   2. pertaining to metamerism.

2. Chemistry. of, relating to, or characteristic of metamerism.

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metameric British  

/ ˌmɛtəˈmɛrɪk /

adjective

1. divided into or consisting of metameres See also metamerism

2. of or concerned with metamerism

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Other Word Forms

• intermetameric adjective
• metamerically adverb

Etymology

Origin of metameric

First recorded in 1840–50; metamere + -ic

Example Sentences

The renal organ of the rabbit, some time before birth, displays a metameric arrangement of its parts; but this disappears, as development proceeds, into the compact kidney of the adult.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

It is consciously and admittedly an attempt to apply Geoffroy's principle of the unity of plan and composition to the three great metameric groups, the Annelida, Arthropoda, and Vertebrata.

From Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

In the true Chitonidae there are generally two apertures on each side, and in two species three or four, another instance of the tendency to metameric repetition in the group.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons, C5H10, of the ethylene series.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

But the metameric segmentation in the rabbit's organism is not nearly so marked as that of an earthworm, for instance, which is visibly a chain of rings.

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)