زُعْرُورٌ
Root: زعر
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زُعْرُورٌ
def.2 A well-known fruit; the fruit of a well-known tree; the fruit of a tree, of which there is a red species and a yellow, having a round and hard stone; a fruit of the desert, in make resembling the نَبِق [or fruit of the lote-tree], and in the taste of which is acidity; it may be the wild نَبِق: (Msb, voce سِدْرٌ:) AA says that the نُلْك is the زعرور; and IDrd, that the Arabs do not know it: [it is a coll. gen. n.:] the n. un. is with ة: [the name is now applied to the medlar, or a species thereof: accord. to Golius, the “ mespilum; special. quod genus aronium vocat Dios. i. 169: ”] accord. to ISh, the tree called دُلْب: this, says Sgh, is different from what J has mentioned.
def.2 A well-known fruit; the fruit of a well-known tree; the fruit of a tree, of which there is a red species and a yellow, having a round and hard stone; a fruit of the desert, in make resembling the نَبِق [or fruit of the lote-tree], and in the taste of which is acidity; it may be the wild نَبِق: (Msb, voce سِدْرٌ:) AA says that the نُلْك is the زعرور; and IDrd, that the Arabs do not know it: [it is a coll. gen. n.:] the n. un. is with ة: [the name is now applied to the medlar, or a species thereof: accord. to Golius, the “ mespilum; special. quod genus aronium vocat Dios. i. 169: ”] accord. to ISh, the tree called دُلْب: this, says Sgh, is different from what J has mentioned.
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