مُعَاقِبٌ

: see عُقِيبٌ, with which it is synonym

[Hence,] إِبِلٌ مُعَاقِبَةٌ Camels that eat one time, or turn, of the [kind of plants called] حَمْض, and another of the [kind called] خُلَّة. (S, O, K.)

And نَخْلَةٌ مُعَاقِبَةٌ A palm-tree that bears fruit one year, and fails to do so another. (TA.)

And مُعَاقِبٌ also signifies A revenger of blood: a poet, cited by IAar, says,

وَنَحْنُ قَتَلْنَا بِالمَحَارِقِ فَارِسًا

جَزَاءَ العُطَاسِ لَا يَمُوتُ المُعَاقِبُ

meaning [And we slew, in El-Mahárik, (apparently the name of a place,) a horseman,] taking our bloodrevenge quickly, in the time that elapses between a sneeze and the prayer for the sneezer [which is usually “ God have mercy on thee ”]: the memory of the blood-revenger shall not die. (TA. [It is there also said that العقب (apparently a mistranscription for ↓ المُعَقِّبُ, as may be conjectured from the fact that the م after the article is often indistinctly written, and inferred on other grounds,) is synonym with المُعَاقِبُ as here explained.])