شَقِرٌ

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شَقِرٌ [The red, or blood-coloured, anemone;] i. q. شَقَائِقُ النُّعْمَانِ: it is not a sweet-scented flower: n. un. with ة; pl. [of the n. un.] شَقِرَاتٌ: as also شُقَّارٌ and شَقِرَانٌ , the latter so written by IDrd and Sgh, and thought by IDrd to be a place or a plant, or , and شُقَّارَى and شُقَارَى : or شَقِرٌ is the name of a certain other plant, not the شقائق, but red like it: or it signifies cinnabar: or شَقِرَةٌ has this signification, as well as that first assigned to it above: and accord. to AHn, شُقَّارَى is the name of a certain plant that grows is sands, having a pungent odour, which is tasted in the flavour of milk: and he adds that, accord. to some, it is the same as the شَقِر; but that this opinion is not well founded: it is also said that it is a certain plant having a flower of a dingy red colour, the seed, or grain, of which is called خِمْخِمٌ: and that شُقَّارَى and شُقَارَى , or شُقَّارٌ , are names of a certain plant, having a flower of a colour somewhat of that termed شُكْلَةٌ, with slender, or delicate, dust-coloured leaves, which grows in the manner of قَضْب [a kind of trefoil], is approved in pasturage, and grows only in fruitful years.

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