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كَنِبٌ ذ , of the same measure as كَتِفٌ, (K,) or ↓ كَنَبٌ , (as in the copies of the S in my hands) A certain plant: (S, K:) or a certain tree: (Lth:) AHn says, It resembles the قَتَاد growing in our country, where, sometimes, sandals or shoes are sewed with its bark, and thereof are twisted ropes which endure moisture, day-dew, or rain: and in one place he says, I asked one of the Arabs of the desert respecting the كنب, and he shewed me a scattered, small, thorny plant, with white twigs or branches, abounding with thorns, having, at the extremities, بَرَاعِيم [or calyxes, or flowers, or flower-buds,] from each of which grew forth three thorns. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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