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Meanings of bitter apple in English

Russian
колокинт
Portuguese
citrullus colocynthis
Spanish
colocíntida
Catalan
coloquíntida
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Species of plant in the family Cucurbitaceae.

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колокинт
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Examples for "citrullus colocynthis"
Examples for "citrullus colocynthis"
1
His mouth tasted like a bitter cucumber, a side effect he'd forgotten about.
Servant of a dark god
2
Tincture of Colocynth ( bitter cucumber) is an excellent remedy for this trouble.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
1
It was overrun with morning glory and wild gourd vines, and the door hung by one hinge.
Sixes and Sevens
2
Between the two homesteads ran a crazy picket fence overgrown with morning glory and wild gourd vines.
Heart of the West
3
The wild gourd would grow where they had worshipped their God, and the sooner they saved themselves the better.
The Second Jungle Book
4
Their whole stock of vessels consisted of the shells of wild gourds that grew abundantly in the forest.
The American Family Robinson / or, The Adventures of a Family lo...
5
Wild gourds of the field... Colocynthidas.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete / The Challoner Revision
Usage of bitter apple in English
1
I never prayed that you couldn't eat a bitter apple.
The Story Girl
2
Collinquintida Ð a bitter apple of the gourd family whose soft fruit made a purgative drug 59.
The Noble Spanish Soldier
3
Felix prayed earnestly that he might be enabled to eat a bitter apple without making a face.
The Story Girl
4
There was now a delicate odor, everywhere, faintly, like the blossom of the little bitter apple here in your country.
The Sleuth of St. James's Square
5
Like the bitter apple. He waved at a vine on the ground, just finished flowering and budding with baby gourds.
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
6
He has give up trying to eat the bitter apples at last.
The Story Girl
7
Control and discipline undermined, and these bitter apples the result!
Saint's Progress
8
'You'll pick over a peck-measure and get a bitter apple at last.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 / A Maga...
9
The ordeal is to eat one of the bitter apples in big mouthfuls without making a single face.
The Story Girl
10
All was bitter apples to me.
Beyond
11
Or Sodom's bitter apples,-hastthou read
The Christian Home / As it is in the Sphere of Nature and the Ch...
12
"I think the bitter apples would be real good for Felix," said Felicity.
The Story Girl
13
But to Felix everything suddenly became flat, stale, and unprofitable, because Peter continued to hold the championship of bitter apples.
The Story Girl
14
"Just as much nonsense as praying about the bitter apples in the first place."
The Story Girl
15
"So you've plucked that bitter apple at last!"
Cobwebs and Cables
16
Felix, I've given up praying that I'd be the only one to eat the bitter apples, and I'll never pray for anything like that again.
The Story Girl