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cucurbit

UK/kjuˈkɜː.bɪt/US/kjuˈkɝ.bɪt/

cucurbit noun: any member of the family Cucurbitaceae of gourds.

Noun

cucurbit (plural cucurbits)

  1. Any member of the family Cucurbitaceae of gourds.
    • Our efforts are directed against species of African origin because these include several notorious pests (such as medfly, Ceratitis capitata), as well as some of the most poorly known ones (species of Dacus feeding on cucurbits).2022 September 6 (last accessed), United States Department of Agriculture, “Archived copy”, in AFRICAN TEPHRITIDAE: INVASIVE SPECIES THREATENING U.S. FRUIT & VEGETABLE PRODUCTS, archived from the...
  2. (obsolete) A receptacle, originally gourd-shaped and used for liquids or chemicals; a bottle or other container.
    • When Sulayman saw me, he took refuge with Allah and bade me embrace the True Faith and obey his behests; but I refused, so sending for this cucurbit he shut me up therein, and stopped it over with lead1885, Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, volume 1

cucurbit meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada

cucurbit in Tamil

பூசணி, பூசணி வகைச்செடு

cucurbit in Bengali

লাউ, কুমড়ো জাতীয় উদ্ভিদ, রসায়নের পাত্র

cucurbit in Kannada

ಸೊರೆಗಾಯ್, ಸೊರೆಕಾಯಿ, ಸೋರೆಕಾಯಿ, ಸೋರೆಗಾಯಿ, ಸೋರೆಬಳ್ಳಿ

Forms of cucurbit

pluralcucurbits
alternative formcucurbita
alternative form (archaic)cucurbite

Origin of cucurbit

From Middle English cocurbite, concurbite, cucurbita, cucurbite, from Middle French cucurbite and Latin cucurbita. Doublet of gourd.

Questions about cucurbit

What does cucurbit mean?
Cucurbit means any member of the family Cucurbitaceae of gourds.
What is cucurbit in Tamil?
Cucurbit in Tamil is பூசணி, பூசணி வகைச்செடு. See Cucurbit meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cucurbit?
Cucurbit is a noun.
How do you pronounce cucurbit?
Cucurbit is pronounced /kjuˈkɜː.bɪt/ (UK).
What is the plural of cucurbit?
The plural of cucurbit is cucurbits.

Words near cucurbit in the dictionary

  1. cucumisin
  2. cucumopine
  3. cucumoviral
  4. cucumovirus
  5. cucumoviruses
  6. cucurbit
  7. cucurbita
  8. cucurbitaceous
  9. cucurbitacin
  10. cucurbitacins
  11. cucurbital

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cucurbit (page history and authors); cucurbit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cucurbit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); cucurbit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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