دُخَّلٌ

Herbage that enters among the stems of trees, (S, K,) or among the lower parts of the branches of trees, (M, TA,) or among the branches of trees, and cannot be depastured by reason of its tangled state; also termed عُوَّذٌ. (T, TA.)

The feathers, or portions of feathers, that enter between the ظُهْرَان and بُطْنَان [here apparently meaning the outermost and innermost portions]: (K:) they are the best thereof, because the sun does not strike upon them. (TA.)

A portion, or portions, of flesh, or of muscle, lying within sinews: (M, K:) or flesh whereof one portion is intermixed with another: (TA:) or دُخَّلُ اللَّحْمِ means flesh that cleaves to the bone; and such is the best of flesh. (T, TA.)

Applied to a man, (TA,) Thick, and compact, or contracted, in body; (K, * TA;) lit, having one portion thereof inserted into another. (TA.)

A certain bird, (S, K,) of small size, (S, TA,) dust-coloured, (K, TA,) that alights upon palm-trees and other trees, and enters among them; (TA;) also called دُخْلَلٌ and دُخْلُلٌ: (K:) n. un. دُخَّلَةٌ: ISd says that it is an intrusive bird, smaller than the sparrow, found in El-Hijáz: according to the T, it is a kind of small bird, like the sparrow, that has its abode in caves and in dense trees: AHát says, in “the Book of Birds,” that the دُخَّلَة is a certain bird that is found in caves, and enters houses or tents, and is caught by children: when winter comes, the birds of this kind disperse; and some of them become of a dusky colour, and of a dark and somewhat reddish colour, and gray (زَرْقَاء); and some, variegated with blackness and redness, and with whiteness: they are of the size of the lark, but the latter is larger than they are in the head; neither short nor long in the tail; but short in the legs, which are like the legs of the lark: (TA:) the plural is دَخَاخِيلُ, (S, M, K,) which is anomalous in respect of the insertion of the ى: (M:) in the T, دخاليل [which is apparently a mistranscription]. (TA.)