عضل

عَضَلَةٌ ذ (S, O, K) and ↓ عَضِيلَةٌ (K) [ A muscle; or any of what are termed the voluntary muscles; i. e.] any tendon, or sinew, with which is thick flesh; (K;) or any collected and compact flesh upon a tendon or sinew: and particularly of the shank: (S, O:) pl. ↓ عَضَلٌ, (S, O, K, *) [or rather this is a coll. gen. n.,] and [the pl. properly so termed is] عَضَلَاتٌ. (S.) -A2- Also the former, accord. to AA, A certain tree resembling the دِفْلَى, which the camels eat, after which they drink water every day: but Az says that he thinks it be عَصَلَة, [n. un. of عَصَلٌ, q. v.,] with the unpointed ص; and what he says is correct. (O.)