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Meaning of LOMENT

Pronunciation:  'lowment

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  pods constricted between seeds and breaking apart when ripe into one-seed segments
 
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 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.
 

 

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