Definitions for somites

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somites so·mite

Spelling: [soh-mahyt]

IPA: /ˈsoʊ maɪt/

Somites is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 171 anagrams from letters in somites (eimosst).

Definitions for somites

noun

1. any of the longitudinal series of segments or parts into which the body of certain animals is divided; a metamere.
2. Embryology. one member of a series of paired segments into which the thickened dorsal zone of mesoderm is divided.

Origin of somites

First recorded in 1865-70; som(a)¹ + -ite¹

Examples for somites

Intromittent organ of male beneath sternum of the 1st somite of the opisthosoma.

But the mouth remains as an inpushing of the wall of the first somite.

The simple identification of somite with somite in Limulus and Scorpio seemed to be threatened by this discovery.

I, Coelom of the first somite which carries the antennae and is in front of the mouth.

P, Protocerebrum or foremost cerebral mass belonging to the first somite.

The appendages of the 2nd somite of the opisthosoma absent, rarely minute and bud-like (some Amblypygi), never pectiniform.

(d) The appendages of the third somite (second post-oral) are clawless oral papillae.

II, Coelom of the second somite which carries the mandibles (hence deuterognathous).

Each cranial nerve is typically placed immediately behind the head-cavity of its somite.

In fact, more or less complete “excalation” of the somite takes place.