ضَوْمَرَانٌ
Root: ضمر
Full Definition
ضَوْمَرَانٌ
and ضَوْمُرَانٌ and
and ضَيْمَرَانٌ A species of the
رَيَاحِين [or sweet-smelling plants]: or of the wild
رَيْحَان: or the رَيْحَان فَارِسِىّ: Aboo-Nasr says that the ضيمران is the شَاهَسْفَرَم [or شَاهِسْفَرَم, i. e. basil-royal, or common sweet basil, ocimum basilicum]: AHn says, on the authority of an Arab of the desert, of El-Yemen, that the ضيمران is exactly like the
حَوْك [which is one of the names now applied to sweet basil], of sweet odour, and is therefore asserted by some to be the شاهسفرم, but the ضيمران is wild; and he says that some call it ضَوْمَرَان.
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