عُلَّيْقٌ
Root: علق
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عُلَّيْقٌ
and
عُلَّيْقَى
A certain plant that clings to tree; sometimes called by the latter name; in Pers. called
سَرَنْد or سِرِنْد: (S; in one of my copies of which it is written سَرَنْد:) [agreeably with this description, the former appellation is now applied to the convolvulus arvensis of Linn., or field-bindweed: and to a species of dolichos; dolichos nilotica; dolichos sinensis of Forskål: and any climbing plant: but it is also said to be applied to the rubus fruticosus, or common bramble: and, agreeably with what here follows, it is now often applied to the rubus Idæus, or raspberry:] accord. to AHn, both of these appellations signify a thorny tree [or shrub], that does not grow large, such that when a thing catches to it, it can hardly become free, by reason of the numerousness of its thorns, which are curved and sharp; and it has a fruit resembling the
فِرْصَاد [or mulberry], which, when it becomes ripe, blackens, and is eaten; [see also تُوتٌ;] and it is called in Pers.
دَرْكَه [?]; they assert that it is the tree in which Moses beheld the fire; and the places of its growth are thickets, and tracts abounding with trees: the chewing it hardens, or strengthens, the gum, and cures the [disease in the mouth called] قُلَاع; and a dressing, or poultice, thereof cures whiteness of the eye, and the swelling, or protrusion, thereof, and the piles; and its root, or stem, (أَصْلُهُ,) crumbles stones in the kidney. عُلَّيْقُ الجَبَلِ [in the CK الخَيْلِ] is A certain plant: and عُلَّيقُ الكَلْبِ [one of the appellations now applied to The eglantine, or sweet brier, more commonly called the نِسْرِين,] is another plant.
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