'Ecballium' definitions:
Definition of 'Ecballium'
(from WordNet)
noun
Exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber [syn: Ecballium, genus Ecballium]
Definition of 'Ecballium'
From: GCIDE
- Ecballium \Ec*bal"li*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See Ecbole.] (Bot.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared. [1913 Webster]