Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.