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- Metamer - n. - Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene.
- Metamere - 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.
- Metameric - a. - Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.
- Metameric - a. - Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation; as, metameric segmentation.
- Metamerically - adv. - In a metameric manner.
- Metamerism - n. - The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.
- Metamerism - n. - The state or quality of being metameric; also, the relation or condition of metameric compounds.