فُقَّاحٌ

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فُقَّاحٌ A certain herb, resembling the أُقْحُوَان [or chamomile] in its growth and its place of growth; n. un. with ة: it is one of the plants growing in the sands; and it is said that its flower is more contracted than that of the chamomile, and that the dust, or earth, sticks to it as it does to the [herb called] حَمَصِيص: or the flower of the إِذْخِر [or juncus odoratus]; said by Az to be a sort of perfume, sometimes put into medicine, called فُقَّاحُ الإِذْخِرِ; and it is the flower of the إِذْخِر when its calyx opens: or the flower, or blossom, of any plant, when it opens, whatever be its لَوْن [i. e. colour, or kind]; as also فَقْحَةٌ , thus with fet-h and sukoon. (TA. [Written by Golius فُقْحَةٌ.])
2 Also A woman of goodly, or beautiful, make, or form.

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