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- noun Plural form of
coloquintida .
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Examples
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The garden, long uncultivated, had multiplied its verdure; coloquintidas mounted into the branches of cassias, the asclepias was scattered over fields of roses, all kinds of vegetation formed entwinings and bowers; and here and there, as in the woods, sun-rays, descending obliquely, marked the shadow of a leaf upon the ground.
Salammbo 2003
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The capitals were laden with pomegranates and coloquintidas.
Salammbo 2003
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