ecballium elaterium

1. 1.

   Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched

   Synonymssquirting cucumberexploding cucumbertouch-me-not

   Broadergourd

   Part ofEcballium

Questions about ecballium elaterium

What does ecballium elaterium mean?

ecballium elaterium means "Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched".

What is another word for ecballium elaterium?

Close synonyms include squirting cucumber, exploding cucumber, touch-me-not. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ecballium elaterium a common word?

ecballium elaterium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.