غَمِيرٌ
Root: غمر
Full Definition
غَمِيرٌ
: see غَمْرٌ, in two places.
def.2 Also A certain plant: or green herbage that is overtopped, or covered, and concealed, by what is dried up: or herbage growing in the lower part, or at the root, of [other] herbage, so that the first [in growth] overtops, or covers, and conceals, it: or any verdure that is little in quantity, either ريحة [i. e. رَيِّحَة, meaning what becomes green after the upper parts have dried,] or نبات [app. meaning herbage in general]: or the grain of the [species of barley-grass called] بُهْمَى, that falls from the ears thereof when it dries; so says AHn: or somewhat that comes forth in the بُهْمَى in the first of the rain, succulent, or sappy, amid such as is dry; and غَمِير is not known in anything but the بُهْمَى: the pl. is أَغْمِرَآءُ. غَمِيرَةٌ [is app. its n. un., but] is said by AO to mean Dry [trefoil, or clover, of the species called] رَطْبَة and قَتّ, with which horses are foddered when they are prepared, by being reduced to scanty food, for racing or for a military expedition.
def.2 Also A certain plant: or green herbage that is overtopped, or covered, and concealed, by what is dried up: or herbage growing in the lower part, or at the root, of [other] herbage, so that the first [in growth] overtops, or covers, and conceals, it: or any verdure that is little in quantity, either ريحة [i. e. رَيِّحَة, meaning what becomes green after the upper parts have dried,] or نبات [app. meaning herbage in general]: or the grain of the [species of barley-grass called] بُهْمَى, that falls from the ears thereof when it dries; so says AHn: or somewhat that comes forth in the بُهْمَى in the first of the rain, succulent, or sappy, amid such as is dry; and غَمِير is not known in anything but the بُهْمَى: the pl. is أَغْمِرَآءُ. غَمِيرَةٌ [is app. its n. un., but] is said by AO to mean Dry [trefoil, or clover, of the species called] رَطْبَة and قَتّ, with which horses are foddered when they are prepared, by being reduced to scanty food, for racing or for a military expedition.
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