Fruit of Citrullus colocynthis.
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Examples for "bitter apple "
Examples for "bitter apple "
1 I never prayed that you couldn't eat a bitter apple .
2 Collinquintida Ð a bitter apple of the gourd family whose soft fruit made a purgative drug 59.
3 Felix prayed earnestly that he might be enabled to eat a bitter apple without making a face.
4 There was now a delicate odor, everywhere, faintly, like the blossom of the little bitter apple here in your country.
5 Like the bitter apple . He waved at a vine on the ground, just finished flowering and budding with baby gourds.
1 His mouth tasted like a bitter cucumber , a side effect he'd forgotten about.
2 Tincture of Colocynth ( bitter cucumber ) is an excellent remedy for this trouble.
1 It was overrun with morning glory and wild gourd vines, and the door hung by one hinge.
2 Between the two homesteads ran a crazy picket fence overgrown with morning glory and wild gourd vines.
3 The wild gourd would grow where they had worshipped their God, and the sooner they saved themselves the better.
4 Their whole stock of vessels consisted of the shells of wild gourds that grew abundantly in the forest.
5 Wild gourds of the field... Colocynthidas.
6 Wild gourds of the field.
7 When they can get no bells, they fasten to their belts wild gourds with two or three pebbles in each.
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