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| Noun | 1. Exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber.[Wordnet] 2. A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.[Websters]. | |
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Sources: WordNet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
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Date "Ecballium" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
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Etymology:Ecballium \Ec*bal"li*um\, noun. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression. See Ecbole.]. (references) |
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| Ecballium elaterium | Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
| Genus Ecballium | Exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. | ||
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ecbole, elaterium. | |
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exploding cucumber, genus Ecballium, squirting cucumber. | |
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