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/ˈkɒ.lə.sɪnθ/ · noun
A viny plant, of species Citrullus colocynthis, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Asia. It produces a lemon-sized, yellowish, green-mottled, spongy, and extremely bitter fruit..
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Colocynth means A viny plant, of species Citrullus colocynthis, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Asia. It produces a lemon-sized, yellowish, green-mottled, spongy, and extremely bitter fruit..
Common synonyms include bitter apple, bitter cucumber, bitter melon, egusi.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Use colocynth where its definition matches the intended context.
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