WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
lo•ment
(lō′ment),USA pronunciation n. [Bot.]
lo′ment•like′, adj.
- Botanya pod that is contracted in the spaces between the seeds and that breaks at maturity into one-seeded indehiscent joints.
- Latin lōmentum bean meal, face cream made of loment, equivalent. to lō(tus) (variant of lautus, past participle of lavāre to wash; see lave1) + -mentum -ment
- late Middle English lomente 1375–1425
'loment' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):