عَطَفَةٌ

A certain plant which twines upon trees and has no leaves nor branches, fed upon by the oxen [apparently meaning the wild oxen,] (K, TA,) but injurious to them: (TA:) some of its عُرُوق [apparently here meaning root-like stalks] are taken, and twisted, and charmed [by some invocation or otherwise], and cast upon the woman that hates her husband, and she consequently loves him: (K, TA:) so they assert: (TA:) according to AA, ↓ عَطَفٌ signifies one of the strange kinds of trees of the desert: (O, TA:) عَطَفَةٌ is the n. un. thereof. (TA.) See also عَطْفَةٌ.