خمل

خَمِيلَةٌ خميله خميلة : see خَمْلٌ, in four places. ― -b2- Also A dense collection of trees; (JK, S;) so says Aboo- Sá'id: (S:) or numerous tangled, or luxuriant, or dense, trees, (K, TA,) among which one sees not a thing when it falls in the midst thereof: (TA:) and a place abounding in trees, wherever it be, (K,) or, accord. to Az, only in plain, level, or soft, ground: (TA:) and a low, or depressed, tract of ground, (K, * TA,) or of sand, (M, TA,) or an intervening tract between low, or depressed, and hard, ground, (T, TA,) or an intervening tract amid sands, in low, or depressed, and hard, ground, (JK,) and producing good herbage or plants: (JK, T, K, TA:) or plain, or soft, land, producing herbage or plants, which are likened to the خَمْل [or nap ] of the قَطِيفَة: or a place where water remains and stagnates, and which produces trees; but only in plain, level, or soft, ground: (TA:) or a meadow (رَوْضَةٌ) in which are trees; that in which are no trees being termed جَلْحَاآءُ: (Har p. 118:) or a tract of sand producing trees: (As, S, K:) or a place where a tract of sand becomes thin, or shallow; where the main portion of it passes away, and somewhat of the soft part of it remains: pl. خَمَائِلُ: which is also explained as signifying meadows (رِيَاض). (TA.)