loculament

English edit

Etymology edit

Frm Latin loculamentum (“case, box”), from loculus (“a compartment”), diminutive of locus (“place”).

Noun edit

loculament (plural loculaments)

(botany) The cell of a pericarp in which the seed is lodged.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “loculament”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)