Crossword-Solution: SOMITE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Somite | n. | One of the actual or ideal serial segments of which an animal, esp. an articulate or vertebrate, is is composed; somatome; metamere. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SOMITE | anagram | ISTOME, ITSOME, OSMITE, SIMETO |
We have 7 clues for the answer “SOMITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| METAMERE | 1 answer |
| Part of a worm's body | 1 answer |
| SEGMENT of vertebrate | 1 answer |
| Segment of animal bodies: Zool. | 1 answer |
| segment of mesoderm in vertebrate embryos | 1 answer |
| SEGMENT of body | 2 answers |
| ARTHROPOD, body segment of | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with SOMITE (5)
The first segment, which is almost half-way down in the embryonic shield of the amniote, is the foremost of all; from this first somite is formed the first cervical vertebra with its muscles and skeletal parts.
See Post-, and Scutellum.] (Zoöl.) Defn: The hindermost dorsal piece of a thoracic somite of an insect; the plate behind the scutellum.
Etym: [Proto- + vertebra.] (Anat.) Defn: One of the primitive masses, or segments, into which the mesoblast of the vertebrate embryo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite.
The tergal element of the somite bearing the palpognath is usually suppressed; that of the toxicognath is sometimes of large size as in some Geophilomorpha (_Himantarium_), sometimes small as in _Scutigera_, _Lithobius_, _Craterostigmus_, sometimes suppressed probably by fusion with the tergum of the first leg-bearing somite as in the Scolopendromorpha.
The sternal plates of all the jaw-bearing somites have disappeared, except in the case of the somite of the toxicognath, where it may be vestigial.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1949–1991).