جَثِيثٌ

Root: جث

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جَثِيثٌ [a coll. gen. n.] Young palm-trees, or shoots of palm-trees, that are cut off from the mother-trees, or plucked forth from the ground, and planted: n. un. with ة: it is thus called until it yields fruit; when it is called نَخَلَةٌ: or what are planted, of the shoots of palm-trees; not what are set, of the stones: or shoots of palm-trees when they are first pulled off from the mother-trees: (As, TA: [as also قَثَيثٌ:]) or, with ة, it signifies a palm-tree produced from a date-stone, for which a hole is dug, and which is transplanted with the earth adhering to its root: or what falls in succession from [app. a mistake for at] the roots, or lower parts, of palm-trees.
2 And Grapes that fall at the roots, or lower parts, of the vine.

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