غَافٌ
Root: غيف
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غَافٌ
A species of trees, growing in the sands, and becoming large, the leaves of which are smaller than those of the apple, which it resembles in character, or form, having a very sweet fruit, of the kind termed
عُلَّف, like the pods (قُرُون) of the bean, and its wood is white; so, says AHn, I have been informed by some of the Arabs of 'Omán, which is the place of its origin: n. un. with ة: accord. to some of the Arabs, the species of trees called
يَنْبُوت, [see this word, of which one description agrees exactly with that given above,] which is found in 'Omán: accord. to AZ, it is of the [trees called] عِضَاه, and is a tree like the
قَرَظ [q. v.], thorny, of the region of El-Hijáz, growing in the [high, or high and rugged, grounds called] قِفَاف [pl. of قُفٌّ].
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