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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun somite has 1 sense
- somite(n = noun.animal) metamere - one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally; Array is a kind of segment
CIDE DICTIONARY
somite, n. [Gr. sw^ma body.].
One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
somite, n. each body-division of a metamerically segmented animal.
Derivative
somitic adj.
Etymology
Gk soma body + -ITE(1)
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