cephalomere

English

Etymology

From cephalo- +‎ -mere.

Noun

cephalomere (plural cephalomeres)

1. (zoology) One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of arthropods.
   • 1877, Alpheus Spring Packard, A Monograph of the Phyllopod Crustacea of North America:

     we would suggest that the head of Arthropoda be termed the Cephalosome , the cephalic segments cephalomere

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “cephalomere”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)