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Definition of Antimeres
1. antimere [n] - See also: antimere
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antimeres
Literary usage of Antimeres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological Biology: An Introduction to the Geological History of Organisms by Henry Shaler Williams (1895)
"antimeres and Metameres.—As such an organism is supposed to develop parts by
differentiation, these parts are arranged in one of the following three ways: ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... four parameres and eight antimeres, a Star-fish five and ten. The conception
of the persona is largely modified, not only by withdrawing the comparison ..."
3. A Manual of Zoology by Richard Hertwig (1912)
"antimeres and Metameres.—The symmetrical parts of art animal are called ...
Thus the body is made up not only of symmetrical parts, the antimeres, ..."
4. Elements of Comparative Anatomy by Carl Gegenbaur (1878)
"But when the secondary axes become differentiated, the divisions of the body take
on a definite numerical relation. They are known as antimeres. ..."
5. Elementary Text-book of Zoology by K[arl] Claus, F. G. Heathcote, Carl F. Claus (1884)
"divides the antimeres from each other. The first, in which the greater number of
... These two halves, as opposed to antimeres, may be termed parameres. ..."
6. Elementary Text-book of Zoology by Carl Claus, Adam Sedgwick (1884)
"divides the antimeres from each other. The first, in which the greater number of
... These two halves, as opposed to antimeres, may be termed parameres. ..."
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