Definitions for somite

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somite so·mite

Spelling: [soh-mahyt]

IPA: /ˈsoʊ maɪt/

Somite is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 130 anagrams from letters in somite (eimost).

Definitions for somite

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 somite

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

Examples for somite

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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