Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An ideal section or segment of the body; one of the structural parts into which a body, especially a vertebrate body, is theoretically divisible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Anat. & Zoöl.) See somite.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A somite.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek body + to cut.

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