arthromere

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. One of the segments or divisions in the body of a jointed animal, such as an arthropod.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. In zoology, the ideal single ring of a series of which any articulate animal is composed; a zoönule, zoönite, or somite of an articulated invertebrate animal. The typical arthromere consists of a tergite, a pair of pleurites, and a sternite, or an upper piece, two lateral pieces, and an under piece.

Wiktionary

1. n. anatomy Any of the constitutive body segments of a jointed animal.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Zoöl.) One of the body segments of Arthropods. See arthrostraca.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any of the segments in the body of a jointed animal like an arthropod