metasome

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English

Etymology

From meta- (“beyond, after”) + -some (“body, segment”)

Noun

metasome (plural metasomes)

  1. A segment of the body of an animal, generally the rearmost one.
  2. A replacing mineral where one mineral grows in size at the expense of another.
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