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  Word: Ecballium

  ID	Word	Wordtype	Definition
  49355	Ecballium	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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