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单词 cucurbit
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cucurbitn.1

Brit. /kjuːˈkəːbɪt/, U.S. /kjuˈkərbət/
Forms: Middle English concurbite, cocurbite, Middle English–1800s cucurbite, 1500s–1800s cucurbit.
Etymology: < French cucurbite, < Latin cucurbita a gourd, also a cupping-glass, in medieval or modern Latin, as in French and English. (The living French descendant of late Latin curbita is courde , changed in modern French to courge , gourd n.1)
Obsolete.
1. A vessel or retort, originally gourd-shaped, used in distillation and other chemical (or alchemical) processes, or for keeping liquids, etc., in; forming the lower part of an alembic.
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the world > matter > chemistry > equipment or apparatus > [noun] > general vessels > retorts or stills
limbeckc1350
cucurbitc1386
alembicc1405
serpentaryc1450
pelican1527
retort1527
gourd1582
cucurbittel1605
horse-belly1660
long neck1660
philosophical egg1660
infuser1688
chapel1694
rencounter1694
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 241 Cucurbites [v.r. concurbites, cocurbites] and Alambikes eek.
1576 G. Baker tr. C. Gesner Newe Jewell of Health i. f. 7 The same substance closed vppe in a Cucurbite or Glasse bodie.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Digress. 368 To distill Liquors out of tall Cucurbits.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. II. xii. 16 The alembic consists of two pieces, a boiler or cucurbit, and a covering called a capital or head.
1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 25 Other substances..are..charred in cylinders or cucurbits.
2. A cupping-glass.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > cupping-glassor -horn
box?a1425
bleeding-boistc1440
ventose1500
cucurbit?1541
cucurbitule?1541
cupping-glass1545
boxing glass1562
ventosa1562
wind-glass1585
cupping box1592
boxing cup1605
cup-glass1616
cup1617
bleeding-bowl1911
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Eiij, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens The sayd medycament draweth to it from all the body in ye maner as cucurbyte and ventose doth the excrementes and superfluytees.

Compounds

cucurbit-glass n.
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1666 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 2) 60 Setting the new invented Cucurbit-Glasses of Beer mingled with Honey to entice Wasps, Flies, &c.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

cucurbitn.2

Etymology: modern < Latin cucurbita gourd. (In the sense ‘gourd’ Latin curbita was already adopted in Old English in the form cyrfet.)
A cucurbitaceous plant; a gourd.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular fruit-tree or -plant > [noun] > tree or plant producing edible gourds > gourd plant
gourdc1400
cucurbit1866
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. I. 358 Cucurbitaceæ..Cucurbits, the Cucumber and Gourd family.
1880 F. W. Burbidge Gardens of Sun 81 We saw a pretty white-flowered cucurbit growing over bushes here and there.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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