'Somite' definitions:
Definition of 'somite'
(from WordNet)
noun
One of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally [syn: metamere, somite]
Definition of 'Somite'
From: GCIDE
- Somite \So"mite\ (s[=o]"m[imac]t), n. [Gr. sw^ma body.] (Anat. & Zool.) One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere. -- So*mit`ic, a. [1913 Webster]