صِيصَآءٌ
Root: صيص
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صِيصَآءٌ
: see صِيصٌ. [It is also said to signify] Dates without stones. (L in art. لقح.)
2 Also The pips of a colocynth that have no hearts, being husks only; to which a poet likens ticks that have been long left in a desolate place: and so, accord. to some, of anything, such as the melon and the cucumber and the like.
2 Also The pips of a colocynth that have no hearts, being husks only; to which a poet likens ticks that have been long left in a desolate place: and so, accord. to some, of anything, such as the melon and the cucumber and the like.
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