Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - 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 somat-, soma body  Date: circa 1885  1. the body of an organism  2. all of an organism except the germ cells  3. cell body