Cucurbitaceous - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: cucurbitaceousBryony
The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia The root of Bryonia alba rough bryony or white bryony and of Bryonia dioica is a strong irritating cathartic...
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...
Loof
The spongelike fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant Luffa AEliggyptiaca called also vegetable sponge...
Muskmelon
The fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant Cucumis Melo of the gourd family having a peculiar aromatic flavor and cultivated in many varieties the principal sorts being the cantaloupe of oval form and yellowish flesh and the smaller nutmeg melon with greenish flesh See Illust of Melon...
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