/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Coloquintida or Colocynth
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Bitterapple or colocynth. (Greek, kolokunthis.)
“The food that to him now is luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.”—Shakespeare: Othello, i. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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