غمر

غَمِيرٌ ذ : see غَمْرٌ, in two places. -A2- Also A certain plant: (K:) or green herbage that is overtopped, or covered, and concealed, by what is dried up: (S, K: *) or herbage growing in the lower part, or at the root, of [ other ] herbage, (K, * TA,) so that the first [ in growth ] overtops, or covers, and conceals, it: (TA:) or any verdure that is little in quantity, (L, K, TA,) either ريحة [i. e. رَيِّحَة, meaning what becomes green after the upper parts have dried, ] or نبات [app. meaning herbage in general ]: (L, TA:) or the grain of the [ species of barley-grass called ] بُهْمَى, (K, TA,) that falls from the ears thereof when it dries; so says AHn: or somewhat that comes forth in the بُهْمَى in the first of the rain, succulent, or sappy, amid such as is dry; and غَمِير is not known in anything but the بُهْمَى: (TA:) the pl. is أَغْمِرَاآءُ. (K.) ↓ غَمِيرَةٌ [is app. its n. un., but] is said by AO to mean Dry [ trefoil, or clover, of the species called ] رَطْبَة and قَتّ, with which horses are foddered when they are prepared, by being reduced to scanty food, for racing or for a military expedition. (TA.)