سَالِخٌ

Skinning, or flaying. (KL.)

(assumed tropical:) Mange, or scab, in consequence of which the camel is excoriated (↓ يُسْلَخُ). (K.)

[A serpent casting off its slough. And hence,] A black serpent, (JK, S, K,) intensely black: (JK, TA:) you say, أَسْوَدُ سَالِخٌ, (S, K,) not prefixing the former word so as to govern the latter in the gen. case: [so called] because it casts off its slough (يَسْلَخٌ جِلْدَهُ) every year: (S:) the female is called أَسْوَدَةٌ, and is not qualified by the epithet سَالِخَةٌ: (S, K:) and you say أَسْوَدَانِ سَالِخٌ, (K,) not giving to the epithet the dual form, according to AZ and As; but IDrd authorizes its being in the dual form, though the former mode is the better known: (TA:) and أَسَاوِدُ سَالِخَةٌ and سَوَالِخُ and سُلَّخُ and ↓ سُلَّخَةٌ, (K,) which last is extr. [i. e. anomalous]. (TA.)

Also (assumed tropical:) A plant of the kinds termed حَمْض &c. that has shed its foliage (سَلَخَ) and then become altogether green again. (TA.)