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coloquintida

coloquintida noun: colocynth, a viny plant bearing extremely bitter fruit.

Noun

coloquintida (countable and uncountable, plural coloquintidas)

  1. (obsolete) Colocynth, a viny plant bearing extremely bitter fruit.
    • […] the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...

Forms of coloquintida

pluralcoloquintidas

Questions about coloquintida

What does coloquintida mean?
Coloquintida means colocynth, a viny plant bearing extremely bitter fruit.
What part of speech is coloquintida?
Coloquintida is a noun.
What is the plural of coloquintida?
The plural of coloquintida is coloquintidas.

Words near coloquintida in the dictionary

  1. colopsinol
  2. colopsinols
  3. coloptosis
  4. coloptotic
  5. coloquintid
  6. coloquintida
  7. coloquintidas
  8. color
  9. color analyst
  10. color analysts
  11. color announcer

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