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Ec*bal"li*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. . See Ecbole.] (Bot.) 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.
The noun has 1 senses
1. Ecballium, genus_Ecballium -- exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber
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