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Ecballium
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(n.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ecballium'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/e/ecballium.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ecballium'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/e/ecballium.html. 1828.
