So named because when the fruit is fully ripe it squirts a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds.
squirting cucumber (plural squirting cucumbers)
- The plant Ecballium elaterium, a member of the cucumber family (Cucurbitaceae)
- Synonyms: exploding cucumber, noli me tangere, touch-me-not, wild cucumber
Ecballium elaterium
- Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
- Arabic: قِثَّاء الْحِمَار m (qiṯṯāʔ al-ḥimār), فَقُّوس الْحِمَار m (faqqūs al-ḥimār)
- Armenian: please add this translation if you can
- Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: луда кра́ставица f (luda krástavica), дива кра́ставица f (diva krástavica), църка́ло (bg) n (cǎrkálo), пушка́лка f (puškálka) (dialectal), пипо́нец m (pipónec) / пипо́нест m (pipónest) / пипо́нче n (pipónče) / пипони́че n (piponíče) (dialectal), кау́нче n (kaúnče) (dialectal)
- Catalan: cogombre amarg m, cogombre salvatge m, cogombret m, esquitxagossos
- Crimean Tatar: please add this translation if you can
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: ruiskukurkku (fi)
- French: concombre d’âne (fr) m
- Galician: cogombro do demo m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Spritzgurke f, Eselsgurke f, Eselskürbis m
- Greek: πικραγγουριά (el) f (pikrangouriá)
- Ancient: ἐλατήριον n (elatḗrion), βουβάλιον n (boubálion) νότιον n (nótion), φέρομβρον n (phérombron), βάλλις f (bállis), σκόπιον n (skópion), γρῦνον n (grûnon), πευκέδανον n (peukédanon), σκόρπιον n (skórpion), σίκυς άγριος m (síkus ágrios), σικύδιον n (sikúdion)
- Hebrew: יְרֹקֶת הַחֲמוֹר f (yərōqeṯ ha-ḥamṓr), קִשּׁוּא הַחֲמוֹר m (qiššūʾ ha-ḥamṓr)
- Hungarian: magvarúgó, magrúgó, lövőuborka
- Italian: cocomero asinino m
- Kabardian: please add this translation if you can
- Kazakh: атпақияр (atpaqiär)
- Latin: cucumis silvāticus m, cucumis agrestis, cucumis anguīnus, cucumis errāticus, cucumis asinīnus m, notion n, elatērium n, sicida f
- Norwegian: springagurk m, sprøyteagurk m, eselagurk m
- Persian: خرخیار (xar-xiyâr)
- Polish: tryskawiec m, tryskacz (pl) m, sprężak m, tryskawiec lekarski m, ośli ogórek m, tryskawiec sprężysty m
- Romanian: plesnitoare (ro) f, castravete-sălbatic m (regional)
- Russian: бе́шеный огуре́ц m (béšenyj oguréc)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: штр̀ка̄љ m, дѝвљӣ кра̏ставац m
- Latin: štr̀kālj (sh) m, dìvljī krȁstavac m
- Slovene: štŕkavec m
- Spanish: cohombrillo amargo m, pepinillo del diablo m
- Swedish: sprutgurka c
- Turkish: eşek hıyarı (tr)
- Welsh: cucumer chwystrellol m
|
squirting cucumber on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Ecballium elaterium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Ecballium elaterium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons