مَظٌّ
Root: مظ
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مَظٌّ
The pomegranate-tree: or the wild pomegranate, or the wild pomegranate-tree: or a sort of pomegranate that grows in the mountains of the
سَرَاة, not producing fruit, but only blossoms, and these in abundance: in its blossoms is honey, in abundance, and they are sucked: it produces blossoms, but does not form fruit, and the bees eat them, and yield good honey therefrom: AHn says, it grows in the mountains, and produces many blossoms, but does not mature its produce, (لَا يُرَبِّى,) but its blossoms have much honey: it has fire-wood of the best quality, the most excellent thereof in yielding fire, and it is made to flame like candles: Es-Sukkaree says, it is the wild pomegranate, which bees eat, and it produces only leaves, having no pomegranates: the n. un. is with ة.
2 Also, i. q. دَمُ الأَخَوَيْنِ, which is the same as دَمُ الغَزَالِ, called in the present day القَاطِرُ المَكِّىُّ [and قَطْرُ مَكَّةَ, i. e. the red, resinous, inspissated juice which we call dragon's blood.]
3 Also, The expressed juice of the roots of the أَرْطَى, which are red, the tree itself being green, and which, when camels eat them, cause their lips to become red.
4 [Forskal, in his Flora, page ciii., mentions The dianthera trisulca as called in El-Yemen مض or مظ.]
2 Also, i. q. دَمُ الأَخَوَيْنِ, which is the same as دَمُ الغَزَالِ, called in the present day القَاطِرُ المَكِّىُّ [and قَطْرُ مَكَّةَ, i. e. the red, resinous, inspissated juice which we call dragon's blood.]
3 Also, The expressed juice of the roots of the أَرْطَى, which are red, the tree itself being green, and which, when camels eat them, cause their lips to become red.
4 [Forskal, in his Flora, page ciii., mentions The dianthera trisulca as called in El-Yemen مض or مظ.]
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