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loculament|ˈlɒkjʊləmənt|
[ad. L. loculāment-um, f. loculus dim. of locus a place.]
A little cell; spec. in Bot., one of the cells or compartments of a capsule or pericarp; a loculus.
1656Blount Glossogr., Loculament, a place of bords made with holes for Pigeons or Conies; a Coffin for a Book; also the several places wherein the seeds lye, as in Poppy heads. Dr. Charl[eton]. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. 18 A small pea..made up of three loculaments or cells. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. vi. (1765) 13 The cells, or hollow compartments of the capsule in which the seeds are lodged, Loculaments. 1796De Serra in Phil. Trans. LXXXVI. 498 A membranaceous loculament, containing the pollen. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. vii. §1. 289 The loculaments, loculi, or cells of the pericarp.
Hence loculamentose a. (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1889), loculamentous a. (Mayne Expos. Lex. 1856), full of loculaments or little cells. |