coloquintida

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noun

Colocynth, a viny plant bearing extremely bitter fruit.

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Meanings

nouncoloquintida (countable and uncountable, plural coloquintidas)

plural coloquintidas

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableColocynth, 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.

    c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]
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