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Definition of Ecballium
1. Noun. Exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Genus, Magnoliopsid Genus
Group relationships: Cucurbitaceae, Family Cucurbitaceae, Gourd Family
Member holonyms: Ecballium Elaterium, Exploding Cucumber, Squirting Cucumber, Touch-me-not
Definition of Ecballium
1. n. 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.
Medical Definition of Ecballium
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ecballium
Literary usage of Ecballium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gartenflora: Monatsschrift Fur Deutsche und Schweizerische Garten- und by Eduard Regel (1901)
"ecballium Elaterium. nung beträchtlich. Nun ist die Schale von ganz ausserordentlich
starker Struktur und wohl im Stande, dem inneren Druck Widerstand zu ..."
2. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"The ecballium officinarum, Richard. ... The juice of the fruit of ecballium
officinale evaporated to the consistence of an extract. ..."
3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"ecballium has only one species, and is closely related to the important genera
Cucumis and Citrullus. \Vith them it differs from Momordica in lacking the 2 ..."
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