شَكِيرٌ The shoots that grow around a tree, from itsأَصْل [i. e. root, or base, or stem]: or sappy twigs or shoots, that grow from the stem of a tree: or small leaves beneath the large: or fresh and tender twigs or shoots, that grow among such as have become thick and tough: and what grow at, or upon, theأُصُول [i. e. roots, or bases, or stems,] of large trees: or small leaves that grow at, or upon, the root, or base, or stem, of a tree: and offsets, or suckers, or sprouts, of palm-trees: and the leaves that are around the branches of the palm-tree: and plants, and hair, and feathers, and abundant ostrich-feathers (عِفَآء, K, TA, in the CK عَفاء), such as are small, growing among such as are large: or the first, of herbage, growing after other herbage that has become dried up and dusty: and downy hair, or down: and any soft, fine hair: or hair growing among the plaits: pl. شُكُرٌ: and weak hair: and hair at the roots of a horse's mane,like down, and in the forelock: and the hair that is next to the face and the back of the neck: and branches: (AHn, K: [in the CK, والغُصُونِ is erroneously put for والغُصُونُ:]) and the bark (لِحَآء) of trees: pl. شُكُرٌ: and the pl. also signifies the long shoots of a grape-vine: or its higher, or highest, shoots: and the sing., a grape-vine growing from a planted shoot. 2 Also Young men: or young offspring. 3 And The young ones of camels: as being likened to the شَكِير of palm-trees.
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