1) The fruit of this plant
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• (n.) The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / 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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(Citrullus colocynthis), hairy-stemmed climbing vine, of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), native to the Mediterranean region. The colocynth has ...
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The peeled dried fruit of Citrullus colcynthis (family Cucurbitaceae), an herb of the sandy shores of the Mediterranean, resembling somewhat the watermelon plant; formerly widely used as a cathartic and laxative. ... Synonym: bitter apple. ... Origin: G. Kolokynthe, the round gourd or pumpkin ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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Col'ocynth noun [ Latin
colocynthis , Greek .... Confer
Coloquintida .]
(Medicine) The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (
Citrullus, or Cucumis, colocynthis ), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely b...
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Type: Term Pronunciation: kol′ō-sinth Definitions: 1. The peeled dried fruit of Citrullus colcynthis (family Cucurbitaceae), an herb that grows on the sandy shores of the Mediterranean, resembling somewhat the watermelon plant; formerly widely used as a cathartic and laxative. Synonyms: bitter apple
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a plant, Citrullus colocynthis, belonging to the gourd family, of the warmer parts of Asia, the Mediterranean region, etc., bearing a round, yellow or green fruit with a bitter pulp. · the fruit of this plant. · the drug derived from the pulp of the unripe but full-grown fruit of this plant, used in medicine chiefly as a purgative. Als...
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