فقص

فَقُّوصٌ ذ , (Lth, O, K,) or فَقُّوصَةٌ, (M,) [the former a coll. gen. n., and the latter its n. un.,] A melon (بِطِيخةٌ) before it has become ripe: (Lth, M, O, K:) a word of the dial. of Egypt: (Lth, O, K:) [but now applied in Egypt to the cucumis sativus (or common cucumber ); (Forskål's Flora Aegypt. Arab., pp. lxxvi., 169;) or, particularly, cucumis sativus fructu albo: (Delile's Floræ Aegypt. Illustr., no. 929:)] also mentioned as with س for the last letter. (TA.)