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loment|ˈləʊmɛnt| [ad. L. lōment-um bean-meal (orig. a ‘wash’ or cosmetic made of bean-meal), f. lō-, lavāre to wash.] †1. Bean-meal. Obs.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. xi. 366 The wynys browne eschaungeth into white, Yf that me putte in hit lomente of bene. 2. Bot. = lomentum.
1814–30Edinb. Encycl. IV. 45/1 Loment (lomentum), an elongated pericarp, which never bursts. It is divided into small cells, each of which contains a seed attached to the under suture. 1826–34Good Bk. Nat. (ed. 3) I. 163 The loment..is a kind of pod..of which we have an instance in the mimosas and the cassia fistula. 1836in Loudon Encycl. Plants Gloss. |