See Also: colocynth(medicine)
colocynth(dictionary)

colocynth (iou)



colocynth noun. Orig. also in Latin form colocynthis. M16.
[Latin colocynthis from Greek kolokunthis, -id-: cf. COLOQUINTIDA.]
The bitter-apple, Citrullus colocynthis, a plant of the gourd family, whose pulpy fruit furnishes a bitter purgative drug. Also, the fruit or the drug.