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سَمْنَةٌ ذ , (M, L,) or ↓ سُمْنَةٌ , with damm, (K,) A certain herb, (M, L, K,) having leaves, and slender twigs, and a white flower: said by AHn to be of the [kind called] جَنْبَة, (M, L,) which grows forth بِنُجُومِ الصَّيْفِ [which may mean either by the influence of the stars of the season called الصيف, i. e., of its rains, or with the herbs of that season, in either case in spring or summer,] and is evergreen. (M, L, K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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