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loment


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  loment 
  n  :  pods  constricted  between  seeds  and  breaking  apart  when  ripe 
  into  one-seed  segments 




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