رَنْدٌ
Root: رند
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رَنْدٌ
[a coll. gen. n.] A kind of tree of sweet odour, which distils much (سَيَّالٌ); of the trees of the desert; a kind of tree of the desert, of sweet odour, with the wood of which the teeth are cleaned; not large; and having a berry; (حَبَّة); called [i. e., the tree is called, and not the berry, for the verb is masculine,] غار [a name commonly and properly applied to the laurus nobilis, or sweet bay]: n. un. رَنْدَةٌ: or the myrtle (آس); this is also called رند, on account of its sweet odour; and Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà says that the رند is the آس accord. to all the lexicologists except Aboo- 'Amr Esh-Sheybánee and IAar, who assert that the رند is the plant called
حَنْوَة, and is of sweet odour; but AO also denies it to be the آس; and so does As: or aloes-wood, (عُود,) with which one fumigates; عود (or عُودُ الطِّيبِ, with which one fumigates, AO, and T,) is also thus called, sometimes: [and accord. to Forskål, the artemisia pontica bears this name.]
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