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سُلَّجٌ ذ A certain plant, (S, K,) upon which the camels pasture, (S,) soft, flaccid, or fragile, of the shrub-kind; (TA;) also called ↓ سُلُّجَانٌ , (K, TA,) or ↓ سُلَّجَانٌ , (CK,) like قمّحان; (K;) and ↓ سَلِيجَةٌ : (TA:) or the ↓ سلّجان , (O, TA,) i. e. سُلَّجَان, with damm to the س, and teshdeed and fet-h to the ل, (O,) is a species of the سُلَّج; (O, TA;) and this last is one of the largest of the kind of trees called حَمْض: (O:) accord. to AHn, (TA,) or as is said by some one or more of the Arabs of the desert, (O,) the سُلَّج is a large kind of trees, like the tails of the [lizards called] ضِبَاب [pl. of ضَبٌّ], green, and having thorns, and [of the kind termed] حَمْض: (O, TA:) in the T it is said to be a sort of حَمْض that ceases not to be green in the summer, or hot season, and in the رَبِيع [app. here meaning autumn], and is weak, or weak and soft: Az also says that it grows in the plains, or level tracts, has a fruit, or produce, with a sharpness in the extremities thereof, and is green in the [season called] رَبِيع, and then dries up, and becomes yellow: and he adds, [contr. to what has been said above, from his work, the T,] it is not reckoned among the trees called حَمْض. (L, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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