Colocynth is an annual plant, with a whitish root, and prostrate, angular, and hispid stems. The leaves are alternate, cordate, ovate, many-lobed, white with hairs beneath. Flowers yellow and solitary; petals small; and fruit globose, smooth, size of an orange, yellow when ripe, with a thin solid rind, and a very bitterish flesh.
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English
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Colocynth
Alhandal
Bitter apple
Bitter gourd
Bitter-apple
Citron
Colocynth
Desert gourd
Egusi
Tumba
Vine of Sodom
vine-of-Sodom
wild gourd
Bitter-cucumber
Bitter cucumber
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Arabic
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El hadja
Handal
اوركى (أوركى)، (طَاطُور)
حنضل (حَنضَل)، حنظل (حَنظَل)
خطيان، الشجره الخبيثه
علقم، شرى، صراء
قثاء النعام، مرارة الصحراء، حبرج
handhal
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Bengali
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Raakhaalashasa राखालशसा
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Danish
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Kolokvint
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Dutch
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Kolokwint
Kolokwintappel
Kwintappel
Bitterappel
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German
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Bitter-Melone
Koloquinte
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Hebrew
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אבטיחהפקועה
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French
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Coloquinte
Coloquinte officinale
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Finnish
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Kolokvintti
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German
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Al-Handal
Bitterapfel
Bittergurke
Bittermelone
Bitterzitrulle
Echte Zitrulle
Koloquinte
Koloquintenkürbis
Pomaquinte
Purgiergurke
Teufelsapfel
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Gujarati
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Indrayana इंद्रायणा
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Hindi
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Indrayan इंद्रायण
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Malayalam
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Kattuvellari
Pekumatti
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Portuguese
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Colocíntida
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Russian
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kolocint
Колоцинт
колоцинт
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Spanish
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Tuera
Alhandal
Coloquíntida
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Tamil
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Petikari पेतिकारी
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Spanish
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Coloquíntida
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Swedish
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Kolokvint
