Ecballium is a 9 letter word which starts with the letter E and ends with the letter M for which we found 1 definitions.
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(n.) 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. |