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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Ecballium (0.02584 detik)
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: Ecballium
Ecballium
n : exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber [syn:
genus Ecballium
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Ecballium
Ecballium
\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.
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