loculamentn.
/ˈlɒkjᵿləm(ə)nt/, U.S. /ˈlɑkjələmənt/ Chiefly Botany.
A small compartment, spec. of the ovary or anther of a plant; a loculus.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > seed > seed-vessel or pericarp > [noun] > division or section of
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lobe1672
valvule1755
valve1760
1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana i. iv. 31 Which is no obscure nor contemptible Evidence, that water doth contain various insensible Loculaments, Chambers, or Receptaries of different Figures.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Loculament, a place of bords made with holes for Pigeons or Conies; a Coffin for a Book; also the several places wherein the seeds lye, as in Poppy heads. Dr. Charl[eton].
1701 C. Preston Let. in W. Derham Philos. Lett. (1718) 312 A striat Capsule, like the Fruit of the Linum Catharticum, divided into eight Loculaments, in each of which is contained one small Seed.
1796 J. F. Correa de Serra in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 86 498 A membranaceous loculament, containing the pollen.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vii. §1. 289 The loculaments, loculi, or cells of the pericarp.
1916 Bot. Gaz. 62 289 Toward the top of the figure lies the stomium, meeting with a corresponding structure belonging to the other loculament of the anther on the same side of the connective.
1937 Rhodora 39 182 Seeds arranged in a single row in each loculament, bordered; cotyledons flat, embryo applied to their edges.
2004 Flora 199 419/2 The apical sept is overtopped by the developing secondary loculaments.
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1888 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Loculamentose, having, or full of, loculamenta, or little cells.
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1857 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Loculamentosus,..having, or full of, loculamenta, or little cells: loculamentous.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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