Epimere

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Epimere \Ep"i*mere\, n. [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.


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