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شَعَارٌ

Root: شعر

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شَعَارٌ Trees; as also شِعَارٌ : or tangled, or luxuriant, or abundant and dense, trees; as also شِعَارٌ : or trees in land that is soft and depressed, between eminences, where people alight, such as is termed دَهْنَآء, and the like, warming themselves thereby in winter, and shading themselves thereby in summer, as also مَشْعَرٌ : or this last signifies any place in which are a خَمَر [or covert of trees, &c.,] and [other] trees; and its pl. is مَشَاعِرُ. One says, أَرْضٌ كَثِيرَةُ الشَّعَارِ A land abounding in trees [&c.].
2 See also the next paragraph, latter half.
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