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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment or somite.
2. 2
   one of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

somite

Etymology

From meta- + -mere.

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