coloquintida

[ kol-uh-kwin-ti-duh ]

noun

1. colocynth ( defs 1, 2 ).

coloquintida

/ ˌkɒləˈkwɪntɪdə /

noun

1. another name for colocynth

Word History and Origins

Origin of coloquintida¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Medieval Latin < Greek kolokýnthida, accusative of kolokynthís colocynth

Word History and Origins

Origin of coloquintida¹

C14: from Medieval Latin, from colocynthid- colocynth

Example Sentences

Coloquintida, kol-o-kwin′ti-da, n. the colocynth.

From Project Gutenberg

Again that remorseless moral system, in comparison with which the flimsy moral system of the Autobiography is, to use Bismarck's figure, but a lath painted to look like iron, had reminded one, who had had the temerity to violate its ordinances, that what is now as luscious as locusts may shortly be as bitter as coloquintida.

From Project Gutenberg

COLOCYNTH, Coloquintida or Bitter Apple, Citrullus Colocynthis, a plant of the natural order Cucurbitaceae.

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And was not this, the hastier of his journeys, the most unlucky in his life, seeing that it brought him acquainted with that foul shrew, Joan, his wife, who made his after-days as bitter to him, patient and godly though he were, as wormwood and coloquintida? 

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The food that to him now is as luscious as Locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as Coloquintida.

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