قَيْسَبٌ

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قَيْسَبٌ A species of شَجَر [meaning plants]; of the [kind termed] حَمْض; said by AHn to be the اصل [app. أَصْل, and, if not a mistranscription, meaning best sort,] of the حَمْض; or, as he says, in one place, on the authority of certain of the Arabs of the desert, of 'Omán, the قَيْسَبَة is a plant (شُجَيْرَة, O, or شَجَرَة, TA) which grows in the manner of slender stalks, from one root or stem, and rises to the measure of a cubit, having a leaf intensely green, round, and somewhat long, the flower of which is like that of the violet, exactly; and it serves as fuel in its fresh, or moist, state, like as does the dry.

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