metamere

Any of the homologous segments that compose the bodies of certain animals; a somite.

In zoology, one of a longitudinal series of parts which are serially homologous with one another. See metameric, metamerism.

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.

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 or somite.

one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally