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عِمْقَى ذ , (S, O, K,) said by Aboo-Nasr to be of the fem. gender, (O,) A species of trees, (S,) or a certain plant, (O, K,) in El-Hijáz and Tihá- meh, (S, [see عَمْقٌ, last sentence,]) of which AHn states his not having found any one who described its qualities, or attributes, (O,) and said by IB to be spoken of as more bitter than the colocynth; (TA;) also called ↓ عَمَاقِيةٌ , (O, K,) which occurs in a verse of Sá'ideh Ibn-El-'Ajlán, or, as some relate it, the word there is عَبَاقِيَة [q. v.]. (O.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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