Concept information
Preferred term
Citrullus colocynthis
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Bitter Apple
- Bitter-Apple
- Bitter-Apples
- Bitter Cucumber
- Bitter-Cucumber
- Bitter-Cucumbers
- Colocynth
- Colocynths
Scope note
- A plant species of the family CUCURBITACEAE distributed tropically and subtropically mainly in North Africa and Asia. It is a medicinal plant of TRADITIONAL MEDICINE and well known in ancient medicine as the wild gourd.
History note
- 2015
In other languages
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Finnish
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Citrullus colocynthis -kasvilaji
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Kolokvint
Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D065986
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