somite : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: somite	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for somite
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
somite n one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally Synonym(s): metamere, somite
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Somite \So"mite\, n. [Gr. [?] body.] (Anat. & Zo[94]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.