[ad. L. lōment-um bean-meal (orig. a ‘wash’ or cosmetic made of bean-meal), f. lō-, lavāre to wash.]

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  † 1.  Bean-meal. Obs.

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c. 1420.  Pallad. on Husb., XI. 366. The wynys browne eschaungeth into white, Yf that me putte in hit lomente of bene.

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  2.  Bot. = LOMENTUM.

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1814–30.  Edinb. 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.

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1826–34.  Good, 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.

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1836.  in Loudon, Encycl. Plants, Gloss.

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