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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the primitive or rudimentary somites or segments of an embryonic worm or arthropod.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the primitive segments, or metameres, of an animal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology One of the
primitive segments , ormetameres , of ananimal .
Etymologies
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proto- + somite
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