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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to homonomy; having the quality of homonomy, or that kind of special homology.
  • In zoology, made up of like segments or metameres: said of annelids or arthropods in which the various metameres are of the same or similar structure. Opposed to heteronomous.

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

  • adjective (Biol.) Of or pertaining to homonomy.

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  • adjective Having the same features or functions.

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek ὁμός (homos, "same") + νόμος (nomos, "law").

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