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One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere.

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  1. n. One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere.
  2. n. one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally
  3. One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic, a.
  4. One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal,esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere.-- So*mit`ic, a.
  5. n one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally