Hypertext Webster Gateway: "somite"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Somite \So"mite\, n. [Gr. ? body.] (Anat. & Zo["o]l.)
One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an
animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed;
somatome; metamere. -- {So*mit`ic}, a.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
somite
n : one of a series of similar body segments into which some
animals are divided longitudinally [syn: {metamere}]
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