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Answer for the clue "Exploding cucumber ", 9 letters:
ecballium

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Ecballium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae containing a single species, Ecballium elaterium , also called the squirting cucumber or exploding cucumber (but not to be confused with Cyclanthera explodens ). It gets its unusual name ...

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Ecballium \Ec*bal"li*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See Ecbole .] (Bot.) A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects its seeds, together ...