زَأْرَةٌ ذ A thicket, wood, or forest; or a bed of canes or reeds; syn. أَجَمَةٌ; (S, A, K, TA;) as also زَارَةٌ; (IJ, TA in art. زور [q. v.];) originally with '; (TA;) [such as is the haunt of the lion; for] you say, الأَسَدَ فِى زَأْرَتِهِ [The lion is in his thicket, &c.]; (A;) and أَبُو الحَارِثِ مَرْزُبَانُ الزَّأْرَةِ (S, TA) i. e. Abu-l-Hárith [the lion] is the lord of the أَجَمَة [or forest, &c.]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Hence,] (tropical:) A garden. (A, TA.) ― -b3- And (tropical:) A collection of camels, or of sheep or goats, dense like the أَجَمَة [or thicket, &c.]. (A, TA. [See also زَارَةٌ, in art. زور.])
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