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خُبَّازٌ خباز (IDrd, S, K) and ↓ خُبَّازَةٌ , (K,) [or the former is a coll. gen. n., and the latter the n. un.,] and ↓ خُبَازَى (IDrd, S, K) [which last is the most common form] and ↓ خُبَّازَى , (K,) or when with teshdeed the ى is elided, (IDrd,) and ↓ خُبَّيْزٌ , (K,) [Malva, or mallow;] a certain plant, well known, (S, K, TA,) of the leguminous kind, having broad leaves and a round fruit; [whence perhaps its name;] accord. to the Minháj, a species of the مَلُوخِيَّةٌ [corchorus olitorious, or Jew's mallow]: or, as some say, the ملوخيّة is the garden-kind, and the خبازى is the wild kind: some also say that the بَقْلَة يَهُودِيَّة [sonchus, or sow-thistle,] is one of the species of خبازى; and there is a kind thereof that turns with the sun. (TA.)

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