— lomentlike , adj.
/loh"ment/ , n. Bot.
a pod that is contracted in the spaces between the seeds and that breaks at maturity into one-seeded indehiscent joints.
[ 1375-1425; late ME lomente lomentum bean meal, face cream made of loment, equiv. to lo ( tus ) (var. of lautus, ptp. of lavare to wash; see LAVE 1 ) + -mentum -MENT ]