زَجُورٌ

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زَجُورٌ A she-camel that will not yield her milk abundantly until chidden: or that yields her milk abundantly to her young one if beaten, but does not if let alone: or a she-camel that knows [her young one] with her eye, but repudiates it with her nose [when she smells it]: and a she-camel that inclines to the young one of another, and not to her own, but only smells it, and refuses to yield her milk to it; syn. عَلُوقٌ.
2 It is also applied, metaphorically, as an epithet to war.

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