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عَقِدٌ

Root: عقد

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عَقِدٌ : see أَعْقَدُ.
2 Also, applied to moist earth (ثَرًى), Contracted, and compacted in lumps: [said to be] in this sense a possessive epithet [as distinguished from a part. n.: but see 1, last sentence].
3 And [as an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates, i. e. used as a subst.,] Sand accumulated, or congested; as also عَقَدٌ ; the latter accord. to AA: n. un. of each with ة: pl. أَعْقَادٌ. See also عَقِصٌ, in two places.
4 رَوْضَةٌ عَقِدَةٌ A meadow of which the herbage is continuous, or uninterrupted.
5 عَقِدٌ applied to a camel, Short, and patient in endurance of labour: or, so applied, strong.

def.2 And A kind of tree, the leaves of which consolidate wounds.
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