جِرْوٌ

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جِرْوٌ and جُرْوٌ and جَرْوٌ The whelp, or young one, of the dog, [and so, app., جِرْوَةٌ , q. v.,] and of the lion, and of any beast of prey: pl. [of pauc.] أَجْرٍ, originally أَجْرُوٌ, and أَجْرِيَةٌ and أَجْرَآءٌ and [of mult.] جِرَآءٌ; أَجْرِيَةٌ, as pl. of جرو, being anomalous; or it is pl. of جِرَآءٌ [and therefore not anomalous].
2 And the same, or the first of these, only, The small of anything, as also جِرْوَةٌ ; even, of the colocynth, and of the melon, and the like; as, for instance, of the pomegranate, and of the poppy, (AHn, TA in art. عتر,) and of the بَاذَنْجَان, and of the cucumber, as also جِرْوَةٌ , likened to the whelps of dogs, because of their softness and smoothness: or what is round of the fruits of trees; as the colocynth and the like: pl. [of pauc.] أجْرٍ (Msb, K, TA [in the CK, erroneously, اَجْرُؤٌ]) and [of mult.] جِرَآءٌ.
3 Fruit when it first grows forth, in its fresh, juicy, state.
4 The seeds, or envelope, or receptacle, of the seeds, of the كَعَابِير [app. meaning the round and compact pericarps (in some of the copies of the K, erroneously, as is observed in the TA, عكابير,)] that are at the heads of branches.
5 A tumour in a camel's hump; and in the withers; so called by way of comparison [to a whelp]: and in the fauces.
6 See also what next follows, last sentence.

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