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Word Meanings - LOCULAMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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  • 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.

 

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