Semantic function of phrases of plants in informal proverbs ) MU'Jam Ahmed Timur Pasha as example The present paperis simplybased on the semantic empoyment of plant vocabulary in colloquialproverbs. This has been achieved by examining the central semantic features that are unique to these terms. The research choose the Dictionary of colloquial proverbs by Ahmed Taymour pasha as an application of the idea. The research is divided in :1-an introduction that tackles Ahmed Taymour pasha and his aforementioned dictionary> 2- along with two studies the first of which deals with plant terms in proverbs and lexical classification and the second a dictionary of plant terms in c0lloquial proverbsThe paper ends in aconclusion that summarizes the most important findings' alist of the studied .terms and awoks cited page