squirting cucumber

English

Etymology

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

Noun

squirting cucumber (plural squirting cucumbers)

The plant Ecballium elaterium, a member of the cucumber family (Cucurbitaceae)
Synonyms: exploding cucumber, noli me tangere, touch-me-not, wild cucumber

Translations

Ecballium elaterium

Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: قِثَّاء الْحِمَار m (qiṯṯāʔ al-ḥimār), فَقُّوس الْحِمَار m (faqqūs al-ḥimār)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: луда кра́ставица f (luda krástavica), дива кра́ставица f (diva krástavica), църка́ло (bg) n (cǎrkálo), пушка́лка f (puškálka) (dialectal), пипо́нец m (pipónec) / пипо́нест m (pipónest) / пипо́нче n (pipónče) / пипони́че n (piponíče) (dialectal), кау́нче n (kaúnče) (dialectal)
Catalan: cogombre amarg m, cogombre salvatge m, cogombret m, esquitxagossos
Crimean Tatar: please add this translation if you can
Danish: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: ruiskukurkku (fi)
French: concombre d’âne (fr) m
Galician: cogombro do demo m
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Spritzgurke f, Eselsgurke f, Eselskürbis m
Greek: πικραγγουριά (el) f (pikrangouriá)
Ancient: ἐλατήριον n (elatḗrion), βουβάλιον n (boubálion) νότιον n (nótion), φέρομβρον n (phérombron), βάλλις f (bállis), σκόπιον n (skópion), γρῦνον n (grûnon), πευκέδανον n (peukédanon), σκόρπιον n (skórpion), σίκυς άγριος m (síkus ágrios), σικύδιον n (sikúdion)
Hebrew: יְרֹקֶת הַחֲמוֹר f (yərōqeṯ ha-ḥamṓr), קִשּׁוּא הַחֲמוֹר m (qiššūʾ ha-ḥamṓr)
Hungarian: magvarúgó, magrúgó, lövőuborka
Italian: cocomero asinino m
Kabardian: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: атпақияр (atpaqiär)
Latin: cucumis silvāticus m, cucumis agrestis, cucumis anguīnus, cucumis errāticus, cucumis asinīnus m, notion n, elatērium n, sicida f
Norwegian: springagurk m, sprøyteagurk m, eselagurk m
Persian: خرخیار (xar-xiyâr)
Polish: tryskawiec m, tryskacz (pl) m, sprężak m, tryskawiec lekarski m, ośli ogórek m, tryskawiec sprężysty m
Romanian: plesnitoare (ro) f, castravete-sălbatic m (regional)
Russian: бе́шеный огуре́ц m (béšenyj oguréc)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: штр̀ка̄љ m, дѝвљӣ кра̏ставац m

Latin: štr̀kālj (sh) m, dìvljī krȁstavac m
Slovene: štŕkavec m
Spanish: cohombrillo amargo m, pepinillo del diablo m
Swedish: sprutgurka c
Turkish: eşek hıyarı (tr)
Welsh: cucumer chwystrellol m

References

squirting cucumber on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ecballium elaterium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Ecballium elaterium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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