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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A part or division in the body of a bilaterally or radially symmetric animal that corresponds to an opposite or similar part.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In biology, a segment or division of the body in the direction of one of the secondary or transverse axes, all of which are at right angles to the primary or longitudinal axis.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Biol.) One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun biology One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.

Etymologies

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anti- + -mere

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  • In contrast to metameric segmentation is the antimeric repetition of radial symmetry (Section 142), in which each ray of the star is called an antimere.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

  • Medially, the proximal end twists to form a dorsoventrally compressed ventral lamina that contacts its antimere medially and the ischium posteriorly.

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Joseph J. W. Sertich et al. 2010

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