طرث
R.
Q. 2 تَطَرْثَثَ He gathered, or collected, the species of plants called طُرْثُوث. (
S,
Msb,
K.) طَرْثٌ Any plant (نَبَات,
K [so in the
TA and in my
MS. copy of the
K, in the
CK بِناء, which is an evident mistranscription,]) that is fresh and juicy. (
K.) طِرْثٌ The extremity of the بَظْر [
q. v.]. (
K.)
b2: And Flaccidity, or flabbiness. (
L.) طُرْثُوثٌ A species of plant, which is eaten; (
S,
K;) [
app. a kind, or species, of fungus; perhaps a species of phallus;] a plant of the same kind as the ذُؤْنُون and the عُرْجُون; (
IAar,
T in art. ذأن;)
accord. to
Lth, a slender, oblong plant, inclining to redness, and serving as a دِبَاغ to the stomach [
app. meaning a stomachic], included among medicines, of which there is a bitter sort and a sweet sort; (
Msb;) in the
M said to be a plant of the sands, long and slender, similar to the فُطْر [
q. v.], inclining to redness, which dries, and serves as a دِبَاغ to the stomach;
n. un. with ة; on the authority of
AHn: it is of two sorts; one sweet, which is the red; and one bitter, which is the white;
IAar says that it is a plant of the length of a cubit, having no leaves, as though it were of the same kind as the truffle; (
TA;)
Az says that the طرثوث of the desert has no leaves (
Msb,
TA) nor any fruit, (
TA,) grows in the sands (
Msb,
TA) and in the level grounds, (
TA,) has in it no acidity, (
Msb,) but a sweetness inclining to astringency and bitterness, and is red, with a round head, (
Msb,
TA,) like the glans of a man's penis: (
TA:) [Ibn-Seenà (whom we call Avicenna), in his list of medicinal simples, (book ii., p. 183 of the printed ed.,) describes طَرَاثِيث as pieces of wood in a rotting state, of the thickness of a finger, and in length less and more, having an astringent taste, and dust-coloured; said to be brought from the desert. See also سُوقَةٌ.] The Arabs say, طَرَاثِيثُ لَا أَرْطَى لَهَا [Turthoothehs without artáhs]: because the former grow not save with the latter: a
prov., like ذَآنِينُ لَا رِمْثَ لَهَا: applied to him who is ruined, and has nothing remaining, after having had ancestry and rank and wealth. (
TA. [See also art. ذأن, last sentence.])
b2: Also (
tropical:) The glans of a man's penis: (
K,
TA:) so called as being likened to [the head of] the plant above described. (
TA.)
