Elaterium - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: elateriumElaterium
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...
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...
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