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)

1. 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