noun.
Any of the homologous segments that compose the bodies of certain animals; a somite.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
In zoology, one of a longitudinal series of parts which are serially homologous with one another. See metameric, metamerism.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of loeven's larva.
noun.
One of successive or homodynamousparts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulateanimal, as in an earthworm; a segment or somite.
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noun.
one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally