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Definition of Colocynths
1. colocynth [n] - See also: colocynth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Colocynths
Literary usage of Colocynths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Village Life in Egypt: With Sketches of the Saïd by Bayle St. John (1852)
"... Guides—their Mode of Life—Arms and Ammunition — News of unexplored Tombs and
Ruins — colocynths and ..."
2. Zoe: A Biological Journal by Townshend Stith Brandegee, Katharine Layne Brandegee (1891)
"I accordingly procured from a drug store several imported colocynths ( Citrullus
... In size these colocynths resembled small oranges, and were otherwise ..."
3. The books of the Kings, tr. by J. Martin by Carl Friedrich Keil (1872)
"The more exact proportions would be as 7 to 22, or 113 to 355. —Ver. 24.
And colocynths (gourds) ran round it under its brim, ten to the cubit, ..."
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