يَعْضِيدٌ

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يَعْضِيدٌ [a word of a very rare measure (see يَعْقِيدٌ)] A certain herb, or leguminous plant; also called طَرَخْشَقُوقٌ, (S, O, TA, [and hence supposed by Golius to be the taraxicon, with which the description has little agreement,] in the T تَرَخْجَقُوق, TA,) this being an Arabicized word from [the Pers.] تَلْخ كُوك: accord. to Aboo-Ziyád, it is a herb, or leguminous plant, of those termed أَحْرَار, bitter, and having a yellow blossom, desired by the camels and the sheep or goats, and liked also by the horses, which thrive upon it; and it has a viscous milk: it is a herb, or leguminous plant, of which the blossom is more intensely yellow than the وَرْس [q. v.]: or, as some say, it is of the class of trees (مِنَ الشَّجَرِ [but this term شجر is often applied to small plants]): and some say that it is of the herbs, or leguminous plants, of [the season called] the رَبِيع, having in it a bitterness: thus in the M.

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