protomerite

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English

Etymology

From proto- + -merite, from -mere.

Noun

protomerite (plural protomerites)

  1. (zoology) The second segment of one of the Gregarinae.
  2. (arachnology) The proximal segment of chelicerae.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “protomerite”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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