رَعْرَاعٌ

The tall reed or cane, or tall reeds or canes, (K, TA,) in the place of growth thereof, while fresh: so according to Az, as heard by him from the Arabs. (TA.)

And hence, as some say, or, according to others, from رَعْرَعَةٌ in the latter of the two senses assigned to it above, A boy who has attained to youthful vigour, and justness of stature; as also ↓ رَعْرَعٌ: (TA:) or a youth, or young man, of goodly proportions, (S, K,) with beauty of youthfulness; (K;) as also ↓ رَعْرَعٌ (S, K) and ↓ رُعْرُعٌ: (Ibn-'Abbád, K:) or arriving at the age of puberty; (TA;) as also ↓ رُعْرُعٌ and ↓ رُعْرُعَةٌ: (Kr:) or who has become active, (تَحَرَّكَ,) and big, or of full growth: (TA:) [see also مُتَرَعْرِعٌ:] the plural, (S, TA,) i. e. of ↓ رَعْرَعٌ [and ↓ رُعْرُعٌ] and رَعْرَاعٌ, (TA,) is رَعَارِعُ. (S, TA.)

A coward. (El-Muärrij, K.)

A certain plant: [perhaps the inula Arabica; now called رَعْرَاع أَيُّوب; or, as Forskål (in his Flora Aegypt. Arab., pp. lxxiii. and 150,) designates the plant now thus called, inula dysenterica:] some say that this word is formed by transposition from عَرْعَارٌ. (TA.)