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Webster 1913 Edition
Epimere
Ep′i-mere
,Noun.
[
Epi-
+ -mere
.] (Biol.)
One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a segmented leaf.
Syd. Soc. Lex.
Definition 2025
epimere
epimere
See also: épimère
English
Noun
epimere (plural epimeres)
- (biology) One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so-called homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the similar segments in plants, as in a segmented leaf.
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