خُضْرَةٌ
Root: خضر
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خُضْرَةٌ
[Greenness; a green colour; verdure;] a certain colour, well known; [and] a colour between black and white: it is in plants and in animals &c., and, accord. to IAar, in water also: in camels, and horses, [and asses, and sometimes in birds, and in a garment of the kind called كِسَآء, and the like, and in other things, a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour; or dingy ash-colour; or dark dustcolour;] a dust-colour intermixed with
دُهْمَة [i. e. blackness or deep ash-colour]: in men, [and in other things,] a tawny, or brownish, colour; syn. سُمْرَةٌ: [and a blackish hue: and a blackish hue inclining to green:] and blackness: [and intense blackness: see 9; and see also أَخْضَرُ:] pl. خُضَرٌ and خُضْرٌ.
2 And A green plant: pl. خُضَرٌ: or the latter signifies herbs, or leguminous plants; as though pl. of the former. [See خَضَارٌ: and خَضْرَةٌ.]
3 See also خَضِرٌ.
4 Also Softness, or tenderness, of seed-produce [and the like]; and so خَضَرٌ , Verbal.Noun of خَضِرَ.
5 And What is soft, or tender; fresh, or juicy; and pleasant to the eater. (TA, from a خُطْبَة of 'Alee, delivered at El-Koofeh.)
2 And A green plant: pl. خُضَرٌ: or the latter signifies herbs, or leguminous plants; as though pl. of the former. [See خَضَارٌ: and خَضْرَةٌ.]
3 See also خَضِرٌ.
4 Also Softness, or tenderness, of seed-produce [and the like]; and so خَضَرٌ , Verbal.Noun of خَضِرَ.
5 And What is soft, or tender; fresh, or juicy; and pleasant to the eater. (TA, from a خُطْبَة of 'Alee, delivered at El-Koofeh.)
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