Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to an antimere or to antimerism; situated in any transverse axis of a body and symmetrical with something else in the other half of the same axis. See antimere.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to antimeres.

Etymologies

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antimere +‎ -ic

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Examples

  • In contrast to metameric segmentation is the antimeric repetition of radial symmetry (Section 142), in which each ray of the star is called an antimere.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

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