D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Somite

/(sō"mīt)/ · So·mite · IPA /ˈsoʊmaɪt/
01 n. One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere.
  1. 1.
    One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is composed; somatome; metamere.(Anat. & Zool.)