Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ecballium \Ec*bal"li*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?. See {Ecbole}.]
   (Bot.)
   A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single
   species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting
   cucumber. Its fruit, when ripe, bursts and violently ejects
   its seeds, together with a mucilaginous juice, from which
   elaterium, a powerful cathartic medicine, is prepared.

Source : WordNet®

Ecballium
     n : exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber [syn: {genus
         Ecballium}]