• (n.) 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. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/metamere/
Met'a·mere noun [ Prefix meta- + -mere .] (Biol.) 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'... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/M/56