Definitionadj. propelled violently in a usually narrow stream
Last update: July 12, 2015
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Among the land plants may be noted the blue anemone; the ranunculus along the road-sides, with a strong perfume of violets; the Malta heath, which flowers at all seasons; Cynomorium coccineum, the curious " Malta fungus," formerly so valued for medicinal purposes that a guard was set for its preservation under the rule of the Knights; the pheasant's-eye; three species of mallow and geranium; Oxalis cernua, a very troublesome imported weed; Lotus edulis; Scorpiurus subvillosa, wild and cultivated as forage; two species of the horseshoe-vetch; the opium poppy; the yellow and claret-coloured poppy; wild rose; Cartaegus azarolus, of which the fruit is delicious preserved; the ice-plant; squirting cucumber; many species of Umbelliferae; Labiatae, to which the spicy flavour of the honey (equal to that of Mt Hymettus) is ascribed; snapdragons; broom-rape; glass-wort; Salsola soda, which produces when burnt a considerable amount of alkali; there are fifteen species of orchids; the gladiolus and iris are also found; Urginia scilla, the medicinal squill, abounds with its large bulbous roots near the sea; seventeen species of sedges and seventy-seven grasses have been recorded. [Please select]
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"It will pass, it will pass," said Hathi, squirting water along his back and sides. [Please select]
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Crouching by a patient cow at daybreak in the lush field, a witch on her toadstool, her wrinkled fingers quick at the squirting dugs. [Please select]
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Pressure on the bottle sends the liquid squirting out of the tube, so they resemble syringes. [Please select]
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Our lively interpreter went down on hands and knees and made an earnest examination, despite the squirting water. [Please select]
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The retort has burst, squirting its boiling vitriol in every direction. [Please select]
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"I saw a picture of an elephant squirting water through his nose-trunk just like your fire engine, Freddie." [Please select]
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One of these is the device of squirting noxious fluids from the body; the other is found in the poisonous hairs and spines which are scattered more or less all over the body. [Please select]
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Amid the wayside rubbish grows one of the gourd family, _Ecbalium elaterium_, commonly called the squirting cucumber, whose fruit--a rough and extremely bitter little cucumber--is the size of a date. [Please select]
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