غَمِيرٌ

Also A certain plant: (K:) or green herbage that is overtopped, or covered, and concealed, by what is dried up: (S, K: *) or herbage growing in the lower part, or at the root, of [other] herbage, (K, * TA,) so that the first [in growth] overtops, or covers, and conceals, it: (TA:) or any verdure that is little in quantity, (L, K, TA,) either ريحة [i. e. رَيِّحَة, meaning what becomes green after the upper parts have dried,] or نبات [apparently meaning herbage in general]: (L, TA:) or the grain of the [species of barley-grass called] بُهْمَى, (K, TA,) that falls from the ears thereof when it dries; so says AHn: or somewhat that comes forth in the بُهْمَى in the first of the rain, succulent, or sappy, amid such as is dry; and غَمِير is not known in anything but the بُهْمَى: (TA:) the plural is أَغْمِرَاءُ. (K.) غَمِيرَةٌ [is apparently its n. un., but] is said by AO to mean Dry [trefoil, or clover, of the species called] رَطْبَة and قَتّ, with which horses are foddered when they are prepared, by being reduced to scanty food, for racing or for a military expedition. (TA.)