Colocynth

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A tendril-bearing Old World vine (Citrullus colocynthis) bearing yellowish, green-mottled fruits the size of small lemons.
  • n. The fruit of this plant, whose dried, bitter, spongy pulp is a very strong laxative.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. 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.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
    • Word Usage
    "The dried pulp of its unripe, full-grown fruit constitutes the drug colocynth, which is used as a cathartic."
    Cross Reference
    compound extract of colocynth   
    Variant
    bitter apple    bitter cucumber    bitter gourd   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    egusi    bitter cucumber    bitter apple    vine of Sodom   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    orris-root    potpourri    carris    v-necked    cicadae   
     
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