[mod. ad. L. cucurbita gourd. (In the sense ‘gourd’ L. curbita was already adopted in OE. in the form cyrfet.)] A cucurbitaceous plant; a gourd.
1866. Treas. Bot., 358. Cucurbitaceæ … Cucurbits, the Cucumber and Gourd family.
1880. F. W. Burbidge, Gard. Sun, 81. We saw a pretty white-flowered cucurbit growing over bushes here and there.
