حُرْقُوصٌ

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حُرْقُوصٌ A certain insect, resembling the flea, to which, sometimes, there grow two wings, and then it flies; or, as some say, larger than the flea; or like the tick; accord. to Lth, a certain variegated insect (دُوَيْبَّةٌ مُجَزَّعَةٌ); the حُمَة [i. e. venom, or sting,] of which is like that of the hornet; which sticks to men, and bites, or stings; (تَلْدَغُ;) and to which the extremities of whips are likened; or, accord. to Az, it has no حُمَة when it bites; but its bite occasions much pain, [though] it has no venom (سُمّ) like that of hornets: or a certain small insect, resembling the tick, that sticks to men: or it is smaller than the [black beetle called] جُعَل; or, accord. to the M, a thing like a small pebble, speckled a little with red or yellow, but its prevailing colour is black; which collects, and enters beneath men, and in their groins, or armpits, or the like, and bites them; and rends the skins in which water or milk is kept; or, as in the T, a certain small insect, which makes holes in the skins wherein water or milk is kept, and enters into the pudenda of girls; and is of the same kind as جِعْلَان [pl. of جُعَلٌ], but smaller; black, speckled with white: because of its entering into the فَرْج of the virgin girl, it is called عَاشِقُ الأَبْكَارِ: pl. حَرَاقِيصُ.
2 Also The stone of a green unripe date.

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