loment

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Noun
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lo=ment

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun loment has 1 sense

CIDE DICTIONARY

lomentn. [L. lomentum a mixture of bean meal and rice, used as a cosmetic wash, bean meal, fr. lavare, lotum, to wash.].
     An elongated pod, consisting, like the legume, of two valves, but divided transversely into small cells, each containing a single seed.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

loment, n. Bot. a kind of pod that breaks up when mature into one-seeded joints.

Derivative
lomentaceous adj.
Etymology
L lomentum bean-meal (orig. cosmetic) f. lavare wash

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