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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In biology: A radiated part or organ; one of a set of radiating parts arranged like the spokes of a wheel about a common center; an actinomere: correlated with antimere, metamere, etc. The arms or rays of a starfish arc parameres in this sense.
- noun Either half, right or left, of a bilaterally symmetrical animal: now oftener called
antimere . - noun Either half, right or left, of one segment or somite of a bilaterally symmetrical animal.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.
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- noun zoology One of the
symmetrical halves of any one of theradii , orspheromeres , of aradiate animal, such as astarfish .
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para- + -mere
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