לוּז

לוּזII m. (b. h.) nut, almond, hazel-nut; also nut-tree. Bekh.8a וכנגדן באילן ל׳ corresponding to chickens (hatched in twenty one days) is the almond tree among trees; Y.Taan.IV, 68c bot. (ref. to שקד, Jer. 1:11) מה הל׳ הזהוכ׳ as the almond tree requires twenty one days from blossoming ; (Koh. R. to XII, 7 השקד). Gen. R. s. 69 (ref. to לוּז, v. preced.) מה ל׳ אין לו פהוכ׳ (some ed. לה, fem.) as the nut has no opening, so nobody could find the entrance to the town. Ib. ל׳ היה עומדוכ׳ a nut-tree stood before the entrance. Ib.; ib. s. 81 end, v. רָטַב; a. fr.Pl. לוּזִים, לוּזִין. Y.Kil.I, 27a bot., v. בּוּטְמָא.Trnsf. ל׳ של שדרה the nut of the spinal column, a hard vertebra, (Juden-knöchlein, v. Löw Pfl., p. 875 a. quot. ib. from Hyrtl, Das Arabische und Hebr. in der Anat., p. 16 5). Lev. R. s. 18; Koh. R. to XII, 5; a. e.