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  • The Squirting Cucumber ( "Ecballium elaterium") is a good example.

    Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions 2009

  • Balsaminaceae) whose fruits explosively dehisce and squirting cucumbers (Ecballium elaterium, Cucurbitaceae) that discharge their seeds in a mucilaginous stream of liquid.

    Seed dispersal Wikipedia 2009

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