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Colocynth

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noun. A tendril-bearing Old World vine (Citrullus colocynthis) bearing yellowish, green-mottled fruits the size of small lemons.

noun. The fruit of this plant, whose dried, bitter, spongy pulp is a very strong laxative.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

noun. The bitter apple, the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant, Citrullus Colocynthis, indigenous in the warmer parts of Asia, but now widely cultivated on account of its medicinal properties.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

noun. The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus colocynthis, or Cucumis colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.

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noun. A viny plant, Citrullus colocynthis, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Asia. It produces a lemon-sized, yellowish, green-mottled, spongy, and extremely bitter fruit, a powerful hepatic stimulant and hydragogue cathartic used as a strong laxative.

Word Usage

"The dried pulp of its unripe, full-grown fruit constitutes the drug colocynth, which is used as a cathartic."

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bitter apple bitter cucumber egusi vine of Sodom

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bitter apple bitter cucumber bitter gourd