squirting cucumber

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So named because when the fruit is fully ripe it squirts a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds.

69 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: قِثَّاء الْحِمَار (qiṯṯāʔ al-ḥimār) — Ecballium elaterium
• Arabic: فَقُّوس الْحِمَار (faqqūs al-ḥimār) — Ecballium elaterium
• Bulgarian: луда кра́ставица (luda krástavica) — Ecballium elaterium
• Bulgarian: дива кра́ставица (diva krástavica) — Ecballium elaterium
• Bulgarian: църка́ло (cǎrkálo) — Ecballium elaterium
• Bulgarian: пушка́лка (puškálka) — Ecballium elaterium
• Bulgarian: пипо́нец (pipónec) — Ecballium elaterium
• Bulgarian: пипо́нест (pipónest) — Ecballium elaterium
• Bulgarian: пипо́нче (pipónče) — Ecballium elaterium
• Bulgarian: пипони́че (piponíče) — Ecballium elaterium
• Bulgarian: кау́нче (kaúnče) — Ecballium elaterium
• Catalan: cogombre amarg — Ecballium elaterium
• Catalan: cogombre salvatge — Ecballium elaterium
• Catalan: cogombret — Ecballium elaterium
• Catalan: esquitxagossos — Ecballium elaterium
• Finnish: ruiskukurkku — Ecballium elaterium
• French: concombre d'âne — Ecballium elaterium
• Galician: cogombro do demo — Ecballium elaterium
• German: Spritzgurke — Ecballium elaterium
• German: Eselsgurke — Ecballium elaterium
• German: Eselskürbis — Ecballium elaterium
• Greek: πικραγγουριά (pikrangouriá) — Ecballium elaterium
• Ancient Greek: ἐλατήριον (elatḗrion) — Ecballium elaterium
• Ancient Greek: βουβάλιον n νότιον (boubálion) — Ecballium elaterium
• Ancient Greek: φέρομβρον (phérombron) — Ecballium elaterium
• Ancient Greek: βάλλις (bállis) — Ecballium elaterium
• Ancient Greek: γρυνόν (grunón) — Ecballium elaterium
• Ancient Greek: πευκέδανον (peukédanon) — Ecballium elaterium
• Ancient Greek: σκορπίον (skorpíon) — Ecballium elaterium
• Ancient Greek: σικύδιον (sikúdion) — Ecballium elaterium
• Hebrew: יְרֹקֶת הַחֲמוֹר (yərōqeṯ ha-ḥamṓr) — Ecballium elaterium
• Hebrew: קִשּׁוּא הַחֲמוֹר (qiššūʾ ha-ḥamṓr) — Ecballium elaterium
• Hungarian: magvarúgó — Ecballium elaterium
• Hungarian: magrúgó — Ecballium elaterium
• Hungarian: lövőuborka — Ecballium elaterium
• Italian: cocomero asinino — Ecballium elaterium
• Kazakh: атпақияр (atpaqiär) — Ecballium elaterium
• Latin: cucumis silvāticus — Ecballium elaterium
• Latin: cucumis agrestis — Ecballium elaterium
• Latin: cucumis anguīnus — Ecballium elaterium
• Latin: cucumis errāticus — Ecballium elaterium
• Latin: cucumis asinīnus — Ecballium elaterium
• Latin: notion — Ecballium elaterium
• Latin: elatērium — Ecballium elaterium
• Latin: sicida — Ecballium elaterium
• Norwegian: springagurk — Ecballium elaterium
• Norwegian: sprøyteagurk — Ecballium elaterium
• Norwegian: eselagurk — Ecballium elaterium
• Persian: خرخیار (xar-xiyâr) — Ecballium elaterium
• Polish: tryskawiec — Ecballium elaterium
• Polish: tryskacz — Ecballium elaterium
• Polish: sprężak — Ecballium elaterium
• Polish: tryskawiec lekarski — Ecballium elaterium
• Polish: ośli ogórek — Ecballium elaterium
• Polish: tryskawiec sprężysty — Ecballium elaterium
• Romanian: plesnitoare — Ecballium elaterium
• Romanian: castravete-sălbatic — Ecballium elaterium
• Russian: бе́шеный огуре́ц (béšenyj oguréc) — Ecballium elaterium
• Serbo-Croatian: штр̀ка̄љ — Ecballium elaterium
• Serbo-Croatian: дѝвљӣ кра̏ставац — Ecballium elaterium
• Serbo-Croatian: štr̀kālj — Ecballium elaterium
• Serbo-Croatian: dìvljī krȁstavac — Ecballium elaterium
• Slovene: štŕkavec — Ecballium elaterium
• Spanish: cohombrillo amargo — Ecballium elaterium
• Spanish: pepinillo del diablo — Ecballium elaterium
• Swedish: sprutgurka — Ecballium elaterium
• Turkish: it hıyarı — Ecballium elaterium
• Turkish: eşek hıyarı — Ecballium elaterium
• Welsh: cucumer chwystrellol — Ecballium elaterium