شَوْرَى

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شَوْرَى A certain marine plant; a sort of trees, of the trees of the shores of the sea: [it is, as supposed by Freytag, the plant called by Forskål sceura marina; of the class tetrandria, order monogynia; foliis lanceolatis, integris; floribus fulvis: &c.: said by him to be called in Arabic “ schura ” شوره; and by the people of Maskat, “ germ ” قرم:] a sort of trees growing in inlets of the sea, in the midst of the water of the sea, resembling the دُلْب in the thickness of its stem and the whiteness of its bark, and also called قُرْمٌ.

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