loment

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lo=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

loment, n. [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