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squirting cucumber

noun

Etymology

So named because when the fruit is fully ripe it squirts a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds.

Definitions

  1. The plant Ecballium elaterium, a member of the cucumber family (Cucurbitaceae)

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for squirting cucumber. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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