The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coloquintida
Coloquintida \Col`o*quin"ti*da\, n.
See Colocynth.
--Shak.
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coloquintida
n. (context obsolete English) colocynth
Usage examples of "coloquintida".
There mournfull Cypresse grew in greatest store,And trees of bitter Gall, and Heben sad,Dead sleeping Poppy, and blacke Hellebore,Cold Coloquintida, and Tetra mad,Mortall Samnitis, and Cicuta bad,With which th'vniust Atheniens made to dyWise Socrates, who thereof quaffing gladPourd out his life, and last PhilosophyTo the faire Critias his dearest Belamy.