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Webster 1913 Edition

Somite

So′mite

(sō′mīt)

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Noun.

[Gr.

σῶμα

body.]

(Anat. & Zool.)

One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere.

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So-mitˊic

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Adj.