Loment

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Loment \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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  loment
       n : pods constricted between seeds and breaking apart when ripe
           into one-seed segments