Somite

Definition: Somite

Somite

Noun

1. One of a series of similar body segments into which some animals are divided longitudinally.

Etymology: Somite \So"mite\, noun. [Greek expression body.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definition
Medicine	One of the paired blocks of mesoderm present in each segment of the early embryo. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Somite

Synonym: metamere (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Somite

English words defined with "somite": Epimeron ♦ Pleuron, Postscutellum, Protovertebra ♦ Somatome, Sternite ♦ Tergite, Tergum. (references)

Etymologies containing "somite": Protosomite. (references)

"Somite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Somite" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

Language		Translations for "somite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		segment (segment). (various references)

Arabic		‏الفلقة إحدى الأجزاء الطولية التي ينقسم اليها جسم بعض الحيوانات. (various references)

Bulgarian		сегмент (section, segment). (various references)

Danish		somit, ursegment. (various references)

Dutch		somiet, protovertebraal segment, primitief segment, oersegment, metameer, mesodermaal segment, mesoblastisch segment. (various references)

French		somite protovertèbre, métamère. (various references)

German		Somit (accordingly, consequently, so, then, therefore, thus), Urwirbel, Ursegment. (various references)

Greek		σωμίτης, μεταμερίδιο. (various references)

Hungarian		szomit. (various references)

Italian		somite, segmento primitivo, metamero, merosoma. (various references)

Pig Latin		omitesay

Portuguese		somito, vértebra rudimentar, protovértebra, metâmero. (various references)

Russian		сегмент (section, segment). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odsečak (segment). (various references)

Spanish		segmento (segment). (various references)

Ukrainian		сегмент (article, segment). (various references)

Vietnamese		khúc (segment). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "somite": somites. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "somite" (pronounced 'So"mite'): Ammite, Bismite, Chromite, gummite, Ophthalmite, osmite, Palmite, Pandermite, Podophthalmite, Protosomite, Psammite, samite, Sclerodermite, stalagmite, termite, Zamite. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-i-m-o-s-t"
	-1 letter: emits, items, metis, mites, moist, moste, motes, omits, smite, smote, stime, times, tomes.
	-2 letters: emit, item, mise, miso, mist, mite, most, mote, mots, omit, semi, site, smit, some, stem, ties, time, toes, tome, toms.
	-3 letters: ems, ism, its, met, mis, mos, mot, oes, oms, ose, sei, set, sim, sit, som, sot, tie, tis.
	Words containing the letters "e-i-m-o-s-t"
	+1 letter: amosite, atomies, atomise, distome, egotism, erotism, exotism, fomites, homiest, mestino, mestizo, mitoses, modiste, moisten, moister, mopiest, mortise, motiles, motives, optimes, sentimo, somites, timeous, tommies, trisome.
	+2 letters: amitoses, amniotes, amortise, amosites, atomised, atomiser, atomises, atomizes, bevomits, boomiest, centimos, comfiest, comities, cosmetic, demonist, demotics, demotist, distomes, domestic, egotisms, emotions, epistome, epitomes, ergotism, erotisms, ethmoids, exotisms, foamiest, helotism, homesite, immodest, imposted, imposter, isometry, isotherm, loamiest, melilots, melodist, mentions, mestinos, mestizos, milepost, misatone, misbegot, misquote, misroute, miswrote, mitogens, modelist, modistes, moieties, moistens, moistest, moisture, moldiest, monetise, moodiest, mooniest, mooriest, mortices, mortised, mortiser, mortises, mossiest, mothiest, motliest, motorise, mousiest, nepotism, ofttimes, omitters, optimise, ostomies, outsmile, pimentos, polemist, roomiest, semiotic, semisoft, semitone, sentimos, setiform, showtime, smokiest, smoothie, sodomite, sometime, stormier, symbiote, timeouts, tiresome, titmouse, toilsome, tokenism, totemism, totemist, toxemias, trisomes, vicomtes, vomiters, wombiest, wormiest.
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