Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • So as to be metameric; in or by way of metamerism; as a metamere.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a metameric manner.

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  • adverb In a metameric manner.

Etymologies

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metameric +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • * In the discussion whether the vertebrata have arisen from some ancestral type, like the earthworm, metamerically segmented, and of fairly high organization, or from a much lower form, possibly even from

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • A number of tubuli, at first metamerically arranged, now appear, each opening, on the one hand, into the coelom by a ciliated mouth, the nephrostome (n.s.), and on the other into the segmental duct.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

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