Usually means: Bitter fruit used in medicines.
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  1. colocynth: Merriam-Webster
  2. colocynth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. colocynth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. colocynth: Collins English Dictionary
  5. colocynth: Wordnik
  6. colocynth: Wiktionary
  7. colocynth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. colocynth: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. colocynth: Dictionary.com
  10. Colocynth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Colocynth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. colocynth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Colocynth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. colocynth: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. colocynth: FreeDictionary.org
  16. colocynth: TheFreeDictionary.com

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. colocynth: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. colocynth: Medical dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (colocynth)

noun:  A viny plant, Citrullus colocynthis, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Asia. It produces a lemon-sized, yellowish, green-mottled, spongy, and extremely bitter fruit.
noun:  The powdered pulp of this fruit, a powerful hepatic stimulant and hydragogue cathartic used as a strong laxative.

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