Meanings of colocynth in English

Some colocynth is gathered here and there, and dried in the hollows of the rocks.

Morrison's pills contain aloes and colocynth; aloes is also the chief ingredient in Holloway's pills.

Aloes, nux vomica, colocynth, quassia, have a flavor that is much more sweet than bitter.

This rose is more bitter than colocynth.

Talk about worm-wood, colocynth apples, and hemlock!

The chief vegetable purgatives are aloes, colocynth, gamboge, jalap, scammony, seeds of castor-oil plant, croton-oil, elaterium, the hellebores, and colchicum.

My enfeebled stomach, harrowed and irritated with medicinal compounds, with ipecac, colocynth, tartar-emetic, quinine, and such things, protested against the coarse food.

It is impossible to make any description, either of the most pleasant or of the most unpleasant, of the raspberry or of colocynth.

I think I will send out a box of colocynth, and a bit of nice tender veal, to put him in good humour again.

On the way we were shown pits of coarse sulphur and alum mixed with sand; in the low lands senna and colocynth were growing wild.

Tincture of Colocynth (bitter cucumber) is an excellent remedy for this trouble.

"You give me coloquintida (colocynth) for Herb-John."

"And safflower, and colocynth."

"The bitter is indeed to come," said the countess; "and such bitter that colocynth is sweet and oleander toothsome in comparison.

Some colocynth is gathered here and there, and dried in the hollows of the rocks.

Morrison's pills contain aloes and colocynth; aloes is also the chief ingredient in Holloway's pills.