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cucurbitaceous en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /kjuːkɜːbɪˈteɪʃəs/

Etymology

From Latin cucurbita (“gourd”), + -aceous.

Meanings

1. Pertaining to the gourd family, including cucumbers, pumpkins etc.
   • On he goes, gabbing, gabbing, recipes for preparing beets in a hundred tasty ways, or such cucurbitaceous improbabilities as Ernest Pudding’s Gourd Surprise 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

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