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Kd r — -jy^ — blind. 



Kor-mdr — ;^t^>^ — [blind -snake]. Applied to the 



Lizard, Ophisaurus apus, and to others. 

 Koresh — Ephedra pachyclada. 

 Kors — fjs^ — a round ball of paste, or medicine ; 



the sun's orb ; the moon at full. 

 Kors-i-gurba, or Jcos-i-gurha — [cat-nuts]. Tubers 



of Carum species. 

 Kors-i-kamar — [nuts for the loins]. The great 



orbicular seeds of Entada species. 

 Kow-warg — the Caper plant, Capparis spinosa. 

 Koza — sj^^" — goza — cotton as collected from the 



shrub. 

 Koza-panha — ^jsj,^^ — or Jcoza-pamha — cotton-pods, 



the pods of GossYPiUM herbaceum. 

 Kulcha — the roasted grain of Cicer arietinum, 



carried by travellers as food on their journe3's. 

 Kulfa, kalpa — the Honeysuckle, Lonicera nummu- 



LARIFOLIA. 



Kunddr — Turki for the shrub Apocynum venetum. 

 Kundar — -jCsXi — Jcandur — ]\Iastich, or the gum-resins 



of the PiSTACIAS. 



Kundar -i-riiml, kandur-i-rumi — []\Iastich from 

 Turkey] true Mastich, imported from the West, 

 yielded by Pistacia Lentiscus. 



Kundarud — ^^jj^xJo — I\Iastich, of Pistacia Lentiscus. 



Kunderu — j^JsJo — in all probability a contraction 

 and corruption for khun-ddru — jj^b^^j^ — 

 [remedy for bleeding]. The ]\Iastich, or gum- 

 resin of Pistacia vera, and Pistacia Terebin- 

 th us, var. MUTICA. 



Kunhalk — Smyrnium cordifolium. 



Kunja d, hi nja da — s^x^sxi/ — and kh u n-jddd — 

 s jv.2£0_5^ — [resin, for bleeding]. A gum-resin, a 

 Mastich, the trees Pistacia vera, and Pistacia 

 Terebinthus, var. mutica. 



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