Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

عَضَاضٌ

Root: عض

Full Definition

عَضَاضٌ and عَضُوضٌ and مَعْضُوضٌ A thing to be bitten and eaten. You say, مَا أَتَانَا مِنْ عَضَاضٍ, and , and , He brought not to us anything that we might bite. And مَا عِنْدَنَا عَضُوضٌ and عَضَاضٌ, We have not what is to be bitten and eaten. And مَا ذُقْتُ عَضَاضًا I have not tasted a thing to be bitten.
2 Also عَضَاضٌ, Trees [or shrubs] that have become thick, or coarse. or plants that have become thick, or coarse, and dry, or tough, and hard. See also عُضٌّ.

def.2 See also the next paragraph, in two places.


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