Definitions for ecballium
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Princeton's WordNet
Ecballium, genus Ecballium(noun)
exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber
Webster Dictionary
Ecballium(noun)
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
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