[so.ma] n [Skt; akin to Av haoma, a Zoroastrian ritual drink, Skt sunoti he presses out] (1827): an intoxicating plant juice prob. from a leafless vine (Sarcostemma intermedium) of the milkweed family used in ancient India as an offering to the gods and as a drink of immortality by worshipers in Vedic ritual and worshiped as a Vedic god
[2]soma n, pl so.ma.ta or somas [NL somat-, soma, fr. Gk somat-, soma body] (ca. 1885) 1: the body of an organism
2: all of an organism except the germ cells
3: cell body