Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the rings, segments, or somites of which the body of a worm, crustacean, insect, vertebrate, or other segmented or articulated animal is composed; a zonule; a metamere or an arthromere of an articulated invertebrate; a diarthromere of a vertebrate: used generically of any segment, to which special names are given in special cases.
- noun Same as
zoöid : a mistaken use of the word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal.
- noun One of the theoretic transverse divisions of any segmented animal.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology One of the
segments of the body of anarticulate animal. - noun zoology One of the theoretic
transverse divisions of anysegmented animal.
Etymologies
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zoon + -ite
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