Colocynth is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COLOCYNTH in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Greek) a cucurbitaceous plant with bitter-tasting gourds, also COLOQUINTIDA
• the fruit of the colocynth plant.
• a bitter purgative drug obtained from the colocynth fruit.
• a tropical Old World climbing plant of the gourd family, which bears a pulpy fruit.
• type of Mediterranean and Asian climbing plant with bitter-tasting fruit
• The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. It comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful cathartic. Called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter gourd.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a Mediterranean and African herbaceous vine (Citrullus colocynthis) related to the watermelon; its spongy fruit from which a powerful cathartic is prepared

Words related to COLOCYNTH

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Words that contain COLOCYNTH

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How to use COLOCYNTH in a sentence

• One of the principal ingredients in the mummy balsam is colocynth, or bitter apple, powdered.
• I think I will send out a box of colocynth, and a bit of nice tender veal, to put him in good humour again.
• Apricot oil in the Himalayas, sunflower oil, oil of cucumber-seed for cooking and lamps, oil of colocynth seed, a lamp oil.

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