SOMA

I. noun Etymology: Sanskrit; akin to Avestan haoma, a Zoroastrian ritual drink, Sanskrit sunoti he presses out Date: 1827 an intoxicating juice from a plant of disputed identity that was used in ancient India as an offering to the gods and as a drink of immortality by worshippers in Vedic ritual and worshipped in personified form as a Vedic god, II. noun (plural ~ta or ~s) Etymology: New Latin ~t-, ~, from Greek sōmat-, sōma body Date: circa 1885 the body of an organism, all of an organism except the germ cells, cell body