- 1. a. Relating to, or being, a segment. Source: opted
- 2. a. Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillae. Source: opted
- 3. a. Of or pertaining to the segmental organs. Source: opted
- 4. adj. divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters Source: wordnet
- 6. 1. Relating to, or being, a segment. 2. (Anat. & Zoöl.) (a) Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillæ. (b) Of or pertaining to the segmental organs. Segmental duct (Anat.), the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives rise to the Wolffian duct and ureter; the pronephric duct. -- Segmental organs. (a) (Anat.) The embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, consisting primarily of the segmental tubes and segmental ducts. (b) (Zoöl.) The tubular excretory organs, a pair of which often occur in each of several segments in annelids. They serve as renal organs, and often, also, as oviducts and sperm ducts. See Illust. under Sipunculacea. -- Segmental tubes (Anat.), the tubes which primarily open into the segmental duct, some of which become the urinary tubules of the adult. Source: webster
- 7. j:100 s. divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds Source: ecdict
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