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Fretum
- - A strait, or arm of the sea.
Gnetum
- noun - small tropical tree with tiered branches and divaricate branchlets having broad glossy dark green leaves; exploited for its edible young leaves and seeds that provide a fine flour
Lactam
- - One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type, analogous to the lactones, as oxindol; a cyclic amide.
Lactim
- - One of a series of anhydrides resembling the lactams, but of an imido type; as, isatine is a lactim. Cf. Lactam.
Mentum
- noun - a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin
- a projection like a chin formed by the sepals and base of the column in some orchids
- the protruding part of the lower jaw
Montem
- - A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.
Multum
- - An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops.
Postum
- noun - trade mark for a coffee substitute invented by C. W. Post and made with chicory and roasted grains
Quotum
- - Part or proportion; quota.
Raetam
- noun - desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista