Word Meanings - LOCULAMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to LOCULAMENT)

• LODGMENT
  The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effect a lodgment. (more info) 1. The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged. Any particle which is of size enough to
• PERICARP
  The ripened ovary; the walls of the fruit. See Illusts. of Capsule, Drupe, and Legume.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• LODGEABLE
  1. That may be or can be lodged; as, so many persons are not lodgeable in this village. 2. Capable of affording lodging; fit for lodging in. " The lodgeable area of the earth." Jeffrey.
• LODGING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges. 2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular meaning. Gower. Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. Pope. 3. Abiding place; harbor;
• LODGE
  The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt. Raymond. 3. A collection of objects lodged together. The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. De Foe.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• PERICARPIAL; PERICARPIC
  Of or pertaining to a pericarp.
• LODGER
  One who, or that which, lodges; one who occupies a hired room in another's house.
• LODGED
  Lying down; -- used of beasts of the chase, as couchant is of beasts of prey.
• LODGEMENT
  See LODGMENT
• UNLODGE
  To dislodge; to deprive of lodgment. Carew.
• RELODGE
  To lodge again.
• DISLODGE
  1. To drive from a lodge or place of rest; to remove from a place of quiet or repose; as, shells resting in the sea at a considerate depth are not dislodged by storms. 2. To drive out from a place of hiding or defense; as, to dislodge a deer, or
• DISLODGMENT
  The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.
• MISLODGE
  To lodge amiss.