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The Squirting Cucumber, Ecballium Elaterium, furnishes the drug Elaterium.
Squirting Cucumber [English]: Ecballium elaterium
Squirting Cucumber [English]: Melothria pendula
Squirting-Cucumber [English]: Ecballium elaterium dioicum
Squirting-Cucumber [English]: Ecballium elaterium
Sran [Tibetan]: Pisum sativum ...
sauvage (francés), Cucurbitaceae (familia), Ecballium agreste (similar), Katri-indrayan (hindi), Luzokermin (vasco), Momordica elateria (sinónimo), Pepinillo del diablo (castellano), Pepino de San Gregorio (gallego y/o portugués), Squirting Cucumber ...
colocynthis), yields a powerful laxative from the dried pulp, and the wild balsam apple, or prickly cucumber (Echinocystis lobata), characteristically explodes when ripe, shooting out its seeds—as does the Mediterranean squirting cucumber ...
 See also: Cucumber, May, Medic, Gourd, Bryony
  
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