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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: Ecballium n : exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber [syn: {Ecballium}, {genus Ecballium}]
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