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خُوصٌ خوص The leaves of the date-palm, (T, S, A, Msb, K,) and of the مُقْل [or Thebaïc palm], (T, TA,) and of the نَارَجِيل [or cocoa-nut-tree], and the like, (TA,) and of the عَرْفَج, (T, K,) and of the ثُمَام, (T, TA,) and of the نَصِىّ, (S voce أُمْصُوخَة, q. v.,) and of the أَرْطَى, and of the أَلَآء, and of the سَبَط: (Ibn-'Eiyásh Ed-Dabbee, K:) n. un. with ة: (T, S, K, &c.:) the خوصة of the عرفج is the green [part] thereof when it appears upon the white thereof; (TA;) [or] it resembles the leaves of the حِنَّآء: that of the ارطى is like the هَدَب [or evergreen leaves] of the أَثْل: that of the الآء has the form of the ears of sheep, or goats: and that of the سَبَط has the form of the حَلْفَآء: (Ibn-'Eiyásh, TA:) there is also the خوصة of the [class of trees or plants called] جَنْبَة, which is of the plants, or herbage, of the [season called] صَيْف, or, as some say, it is what grows upon a root-stock or rhizoma (عَلَى أَرُومَةٍ): (TA:) but to herbs, or leguminous plants, of which the leaves fall and become scattered when they dry up, there is no خوصة. (T, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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