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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun has 1 sense
- ecballium(n = noun.plant) genus ecballium - exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber;
CIDE DICTIONARY
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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. [1913 Webster]