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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In embryology, one of the segments of the vertebrate embryo as indicated by the presence of a visceral arch and cleft; a branchial segment or metamere.
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- noun zoology The
embryonic structure that develops into thebranchial arch
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From branchio- + -mere
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