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MOMORDICA

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 684 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOMORDICA , in See also:

botany, a genus of See also:annual or perennial climbing herbs belonging to the natural See also:order See also:Cucurbitaceae, natives of the tropics, especially See also:Africa, and known in cultivation chiefly as hothouse See also:plants. They are grown for their ornamentalfleshy fruits, which are oblong to cylindrical in shape, See also:orange to red in See also:colour, prickly or warted externally, and burst when ripe, generally with elastic force, into irregular valves. M. Balsamina, known as See also:balsam See also:apple, is a very See also:pretty annual, well adapted for trellises, &c., in warm outside situations.

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