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Meanings of bitter cucumber in English

Russian
колокинт
Portuguese
citrullus colocynthis
Spanish
colocíntida
Catalan
coloquíntida
Wikidata

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
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
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 cucumber in English
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 ...