شَيْبَةٌ

a verbal noun of 1 [q. v.]. (S, Msb.)

And according to El-Khafájee, A white, or hoary, beard: but MF says that this is a conventional postclassical meaning. (TA.)

[Also, in the present day, applied to A species of artemisia; (Forskål's Flor. Aegypt. Arab., p. lxxiii., no. 439;) the artemisia arborescens of Linn.: (Delile's Flor. Aegypt. Illustr., no. 799:)

and Lichen; (Forskål ubi suprà;) the lichen prunastri of Linn. (Delile, ib., no. 976 (assumed tropical:) .) And شَيْبَةُ الجَبَلِ Lichen scyphifer. (Forskål, p. lxxviii., no. 559.)]