حرقص
حُرْقُوصٌ A certain insect, resembling the flea, (
S,
A,
K,) to which, sometimes, there grow two wings, and then it flies; (
S;) or, as some say, larger than the flea; (
TA;) or like the tick; (A;)
accord. to
Lth, a certain variegated insect (دُوَيْبَّةٌ مُجَزَّعَةٌ); (
TA;) the حُمَة [i. e. venom, or sting,] of which is like that of the hornet; (
A,
K;) which sticks to men, and bites, or stings; (تَلْدَغُ;) and to which the extremities of whips are likened; (A;) or,
accord. to
Az, it has no حُمَة when it bites; but its bite occasions much pain, [though] it has no venom (سُمّ) like that of hornets: (
TA:) or (
K) a certain small insect, (
IDrd,
TA,) resembling the tick, that sticks to men: (
IDrd,
K,
TA:) or it is smaller than the [black beetle called] جُعَل; (
ISk,
TA;) or,
accord. to the
M, a thing like a small pebble, speckled a little with red or yellow, but its prevailing colour is black; which collects, and enters beneath men, and in their groins, or armpits, or the like, and bites them; and rends the skins in which water or milk is kept; or, as in the
T, a certain small insect, (
TA,) which makes holes in the skins wherein water or milk is kept, and (as
Az heard the Arabs of the desert to assert,
TA) enters into the pudenda of girls; (
K,
TA;) and is of the same kind as جِعْلَان [
pl. of جُعَلٌ], but smaller; black, speckled with white: (
TA:) because of its entering into the فَرْج of the virgin girl, it is called عَاشِقُ الأَبْكَارِ: (
IB,
TA:)
pl. حَرَاقِيصُ. (
K.)
b2: Also The stone of a green unripe date. (
AA,
K.)