زَنَمَةٌ

of the ear of a camel: see زَنِمٌ: but according to El-Ahmar, it is a mark made by cutting off a portion of the ear. (TA.)

[Of the ear of a man, it is apparently The antitragus and also a small prominence of the antihelix immediately above the antitragus: for it is said that] زَنَمَتَا الأُذُنِ signifies two small things (هَنَتَانِ) next to the شَحُمَة [or lobule], opposite to the وَتَرَة [an evident mistranscription for وَتِدَة i. e. tragus]. (K. [So in all the copies that I have seen.])

Also [A kind of wattle, i. e.] a thing, (Msb,) or piece of flesh, (TA,) hanging from the حَلْق [here meaning throat, externally], (Msb, TA,) beneath each ear, (S and A and K in article رعث,] of the شَاة [i. e., apparently, sheep as well as goat; though it is said in the S that “ the sheep has no زَنَمَة; that pertaining only to the goat; ” apparently because it is uncommon in sheep]. (TA.) [See also زَلَمَةٌ; and see رَعِثَتْ and رَعْثَةٌ and رَعْثَاءُ.]

To this is likened the زَنَمَة of a tree: see 4. (TA.)

And [as the زَنَمَة of the ear of a camel, or of a goat or sheep, serves to distinguish it,] it signifies also (assumed tropical:) A mark, sign, or token. (TA.)

زَنَمَتَا الفُوقِ (tropical:) The two edges [or cusps] of the notch of an arrow, (Msb, K, TA,) between which is put the bow-string; (Msb, TA;) as also الفوق زَنْمَتَا; (K;) but the former is the more chaste: (TA:) also called شَرْخَا الفُوقِ. (S in article شرخ, and A and TA.)

See also أُذُنَا القَلْبِ, voce أُذُنٌ.

الزَّنَمَةُ also signifies (assumed tropical:) A certain herb, or leguminous plant, (K, TA,) of which AHn had heard mention made, but remembered not any description: it is said to grow in plain, or soft, tracts, and in the form of the زَنَمَة of the ear; to have leaves; and to be one of the worst of plants. (TA.)