segmental

POS

Adjective

HYPHEN

seg=men=tal

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective segmental has 2 senses

segmental(s = adj.all) - divided or organized into speech segments or isolable speech sounds;
segmental(s = adj.all) metameric, segmented - having the body divided into successive metameres or segments, as in earthworms or lobsters;

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CIDE DICTIONARY

segmental, a.

Relating to, or being, a segment. [1913 Webster]
Of or pertaining to the segments of animals; as, a segmental duct; segmental papillæ. [1913 Webster]

Segmental duct (Anat.), the primitive duct of the embryonic excretory organs which gives rise to the Wolffian duct and ureter; the pronephric duct. -- Segmental organs. (a) (Anat.) The embryonic excretory organs of vertebrates, consisting primarily of the segmental tubes and segmental ducts. (b) (Zoöl.) The tubular excretory organs, a pair of which often occur in each of several segments in annelids. They serve as renal organs, and often, also, as oviducts and sperm ducts. See Illust. under Sipunculacea. -- Segmental tubes (Anat.), the tubes which primarily open into the segmental duct, some of which become the urinary tubules of the adult.