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soma

noun
/ˈsoʊmə/US/ˈsəʊmə/UK

Etymology

Abbreviation. * (San Francisco): From being located south of Market Street. * (Vancouver): From being on the southern portion of Main Street.

  1. derived from σῶμα

Definitions

  1. The whole axial portion of an animal, including the head, neck, trunk, and tail.

  2. The body of an organism in contrast to the germ cells.

  3. The bulbous part of a neuron, containing the cell nucleus.

  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. The corporeal body, as distinguished from the psyche or soul and the pneuma or spirit.

    2. A ritual drink in ancient Vedic culture, obtained by pressing the Soma plant.

      • Once he had drunk the intoxicating soma, he experienced an ascent to the gods without having to die a violent death, as in the old ritual.

    3. Any kind of intoxicating drug.

      • […] there is always soma, delicious soma, half a gramme for a half-holiday, a gramme for a week-end, two grammes for a trip to the gorgeous East, three for a dark eternity on the moon […]

    4. The soma juice, capitalized usually when mentioned in personified, deified form.

    5. A female given name from Sanskrit used in India.

    6. Acronym of South of Market

      Acronym of South of Market: a neighborhood of San Francisco, California, United States.

    7. Acronym of South Main

      Acronym of South Main: a neighbourhood of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

    8. Acronym of South Orange Maplewood.

The neighborhood

Derived

idiosoma, mesosoma, metasoma, opisthosoma, pyrosomal disease, resomation, somal, somatic, somesthesia, somite

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA