Meaning of LOMENT
Pronunciation: | | 'lowment
|
WordNet Dictionary |
|
| Definition: | | [n] pods constricted between seeds and breaking apart when ripe into one-seed segments |
|
| Websites: | | |
|
| See Also: | | pod, seedpod | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
|
| Definition: | | \Lo"ment\, n. [L. lomentum a mixture of bean meal and
rice, used as a cosmetic wash, bean meal, fr. lavare, lotum,
to wash.] (Bot.)
An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves,
but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a
single seed.
|
|
|
|