سحل

اـِسْحِلٌ ذ A kind of trees, (AHn, S, K,) resembling the [ species of tamarisk called ] أَثْل, and growing in the places where the [ trees called ] أَرَاك grow, in plain, or soft, tracts: (AHn, TA:) its twigs are used for cleaning the teeth: (AHn, K * TA:) and Imra-el-Keys likens the fingers of a woman to tooth-sticks (مَسَاوِيك) thereof. (S, TA. [See EM p. 30.]) It is [said to be] a word that has no parallel in form except اـِذْخِرٌ and اـِجْرِدٌ and اـِبْلِمٌ and اـِثْمِدٌ. (TA.)