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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) Colocynth, a viny plant bearing extremely bitter fruit..
[…] the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.
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Coloquintida means (obsolete) Colocynth, a viny plant bearing extremely bitter fruit..
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[…] the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.
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