cucurbitaceous
adj/kjuːkɜːbɪˈteɪʃəs/
Etymology From Latin cucurbita (“gourd”), + -aceous.
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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 Surprise1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow: