رَقَمَةٌ
Root: رقم
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رَقَمَةٌ
A certain plant, resembling the
كرش [i. e. كَرِش or كِرْش, a plant little known, said to be so called because its leaves resemble the villous coat of the stomach of a ruminant animal]: so says Az: and in one place he says, it is a herb that grows
مشحطا [app. a mistranscription for مُسَطَّحًا, a term often used in descriptions of plants, meaning expanded], juicy, or sappy, and scarcely ever, or never, eaten by the camels, or cattle, except from want: AHn describes the رقمة [perhaps meaning the رَقْمَة, q. v.,] only as a herb, or leguminous plant, of those termed
أَحْرَار, of which the particular characteristics were not known to him. [Forskål, in his Flora Aegypt. Arab. p. cviii., mentions a plant seen by him in El-Yemen, previously unknown to him, which he calls “ rokama prostrata, ” of the class pentandria; writing its Arabic name رقمه, and the pronunciation “ Rókama. ”]
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