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Webster 1913 Edition

Cucurbite

{

Cu-cur′bit

Cu-cur′bite

}

(kū̍-kûr′bĭt)

,

Noun.

[L.

cucurbita

a gourd: cf. F.

cucurbite

. See

.]

(Chem.)

A vessel or flask for distillation, used with, or forming part of, an alembic; a matrass; – originally in the shape of a gourd, with a wide mouth. See

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