[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.
1656. Blount, 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].
1707. Sloane, Jamaica, I. 18. A small pea … made up of three loculaments or cells.
1760. J. Lee, Introd. Bot., I. vi. (1765), 13. The cells, or hollow compartments of the capsule in which the seeds are lodged, Loculaments.
1796. De Serra, in Phil. Trans., LXXXVI. 498. A membranaceous loculament, containing the pollen.
1880. Gray, 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.
