Squirting cucumber Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
    touch-me-not; Ecballium elaterium; exploding cucumber.

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  1. a plant (Ecbalium Elaterium) whose small oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium.
Definitions
  1. . (Bot.) See Ecballium.

Webster 1913