coloquintida

English

Noun

coloquintida (countable and uncountable, plural coloquintidas)

1. (obsolete) Colocynth, a viny plant bearing extremely bitter fruit.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:

     […] the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.