Lane’s articleيَقْطِينٌ1 sense
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A plant or the like that has no سَاق [or standing stem], such as the gourd-plant and the like; any tree or plant that spreads, or creeps, along the ground without rising on a stem, as the colocynth does.
By convention it is applied especially to the gourd. See سُطَّاحٌ.
Show Lane's original text
A plant (S, K) and the like (K) that has no سَاق [or standing stem]; (S, K;) as the gourd-plant and the like: (S:) any tree [or plant] that spreads [or creeps] upon the ground, not rising upon a stem; such, for instance, as the colocynth; but conventionally applied especially to the gourd. (Msb.) See سُطَّاحٌ .