Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LO-MEN-TA'CEOUS, a. [L. lomentum, bean meal, a color.]

Furnished with a loment. The Lomentaceæ are a natural order of plants, many of which furnish beautiful tinctures or dyes, and whose seeds are contained in a loment or a legume. – Linnæus. A lomentaceous dehiscence of a pericarp is when articulations take place across the legume, and it falls into several pieces. – Lindley.