Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

حَوْصَلٌ

Root: حصل

Full Definition

حَوْصَلٌ A depressed place where water rests in a meadow, where the herbage is the latest to dry up: whence the of a bird, as being the resting-place of what it eats.
2 The place where water rests, or remains, in the furthest part of a watering-trough or tank; as also حَوْصَلَةٌ .
3 See also حَوْصَلَةٌ.
4 Also A sheep or goat large in the part of the belly above the navel.

def.2 A certain plant.


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