Cucumber - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cucumberColocynth
The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber Citrullus colocynthis or Cucumis colocynthis an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon coloquintida It comes in white balls is intensely bitter and a powerful cathartic Called also bitter apple bitter cucumber bitter gourd...
Cucumber
A creeping plant and its fruit of several species of the genus Cucumis esp Cucumis sativus the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked Also similar plants or fruits of several other genera See below...
Cucumiform
Having the form of a cucumber having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends and either straight or curved...
Cucumis
A genus of plants including the cucumber melon and same kinds of gourds...
Cucurbitaceae
a natural family of plants including the cucumber melon squash and pumpkin...
Cucurbitaceous
Of pertaining to or resembling a family of plants of which the cucumber melon and gourd are common examples...
Ecballium
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...
Elaterium
A cathartic substance obtained in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber Ecballium agreste formerly called Momordica Elaterium...
Gourd
A fleshy three celled many seeded fruit as the melon pumpkin cucumber etc of the order Cucurbitaceaelig and especially the bottle gourd Lagenaria vulgaris which occurs in a great variety of forms and when the interior part is removed serves for bottles dippers cups and other dishes...
Sea cucumber
Any large holothurian especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta or Cucumaria as the common American and European species P frondosa...
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