عِلْبٌ

Also A place where the سِدْر [rhamnus nabeca, or rhamnus spina Christi, a species of lote-tree,] grows: plural عُلُوبٌ. (AZ, O, K.) [Accord. to Forskål, (Flora Aegypt. Arab., p. cvi.,) علب (thus written by him, and also “ œlb, ” apparently for عِلْب,) is an appel-lation applied by some in El-Yemen to the tree which he calls Rhamnus nabeca rectus.]

And A man such that one should not covet, or hope to get, what he has, (O, K,) whether of words or of other than words. (O.)

And one says, إِنَّهُ لَعِلْبُ شَرٍّ Verily he is strong to do evil, or mischief. (TA.)