شِرْسٌ

Such as are small, of thorny trees; (Mgh, * K;) as also ↓ شَرَسٌ; (K;) the latter word thus explained by AHn: (O:) or the عِضَاه of the mountain, which are the small kind of thorny trees, (S, O, TA, *) having yellow thorns, or, as some say, such as have slender thorns, growing in depressed tracts, and in the deserts (الصَّحَارَى), but not in the plain, or soft, tracts of valleys; (TA;) such as the شُبْرُم and حَاج (S, O) and شُكَاعَى and قَتَاد. (O. [See عِضٌّ.]) See also أَشْرَسُ.