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دِنْدِنٌ

Root: دن

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دِنْدِنٌ syn. with دَنْدَنَةٌ: see R. Q. 1, in two places.

def.2 Also Herbage and trees, or dry herbage, become black, or wasted and black, by reason of oldness: or what is broken in pieces of [the species of barley-grass called] بُهْمَى, when it has become black and old: or the stems (أُصُول) of old and wasted trees: accord. to Lth, the stems (اصول) of trees: but the right explanation is that given above on the authority of As.
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