طُرْثُوثٌ

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طُرْثُوثٌ A species of plant, which is eaten; [app. a kind, or species, of fungus; perhaps a species of phallus;] a plant of the same kind as the ذُؤْنُون and the عُرْجُون; (IAar, T in art. ذأن;) accord. to Lth, a slender, oblong plant, inclining to redness, and serving as a دِبَاغ to the stomach [app. meaning a stomachic], included among medicines, of which there is a bitter sort and a sweet sort; in the M said to be a plant of the sands, long and slender, similar to the فُطْر [q. v.], inclining to redness, which dries, and serves as a دِبَاغ to the stomach; n. un. with ة; on the authority of AHn: it is of two sorts; one sweet, which is the red; and one bitter, which is the white; IAar says that it is a plant of the length of a cubit, having no leaves, as though it were of the same kind as the truffle; Az says that the طرثوث of the desert has no leaves nor any fruit, grows in the sands and in the level grounds, has in it no acidity, but a sweetness inclining to astringency and bitterness, and is red, with a round head, like the glans of a man's penis: [Ibn-Seenà , in his list of medicinal simples, describes طَرَاثِيث as pieces of wood in a rotting state, of the thickness of a finger, and in length less and more, having an astringent taste, and dust-coloured; said to be brought from the desert. See also سُوقَةٌ.] The Arabs say, طَرَاثِيثُ لَا أَرْطَى لَهَا [Turthoothehs without artáhs]: because the former grow not save with the latter: a prov., like ذَآنِينُ لَا رِمْثَ لَهَا: applied to him who is ruined, and has nothing remaining, after having had ancestry and rank and wealth. (TA. [See also art. ذأن, last sentence.])
2 Also The glans of a man's penis: so called as being likened to [the head of] the plant above described.

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