شَبَهَانٌ

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شَبَهَانٌ and شَبَهٌ , the latter on the authority of IB, (TA, [and mentioned also in the M voce سَيَالٌ on the authority of AA,]) A certain thorny plant, resembling the سَمُر [or gum-acacia-tree], having an elegant red blossom, and grains like the شَهْدَانَج [or hemp-seed], an antidote for the bite, or sting, of venomous reptiles, beneficial for the cough, lithotriptic, and binding to the bowels. And , or شَبَهَانٌ, or both, or شَبُهَانٌ , or , A kind of trees, of the [kind called] عِضاَه: or the ثُمَام [i. e. panic grass]: or the نَمَّام [now commonly applied to wild thyme, thymus serpyllum], , one of the sweetsmelling plants, having an elegant red flower, &c., as in the next preceding sentence. (So in copies of the K. [See شَهَبَانٌ.])

def.2 See also شَبَهٌ.

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