Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The posterior part of the body of a cephalopod, which is enveloped in the mantle and contains the viscera.
- noun In some crustaceans, as the amphipods, the first three segments of the pleon or abdomen. Compare
mesosome and urosome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the component segments of the body of an animal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a
segments of the body of an animal, generally the rearmost one
Etymologies
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From meta- ("beyond, after") + -some ("body, segment")
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