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English
Etymology
From Latin replum (“door frame”).
Pronunciation
Noun
replum (plural replums or repla)
- (botany) The framework of some pods, such as the cress, which remains after the valves drop off[1]
References
- ^ Asa Gray (1857) “.] Replum.”, in First Lessons in Botany and Vegetable Physiology, , New York, N.Y.: Ivison & Phinney and G P Putnam & Co., , →OCLC.
Anagrams
Latin
Noun
replum n (genitive replī); second declension
- bolt
- frame
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “replum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- replum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- replum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.