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Ecballium 噴瓜屬 噴瓜屬 Ecballium n 1: exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber [synonym: {Ecballium}, {genus Ecballium}] 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]
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