cucurbitacin

Questions

What does cucurbitacin mean?

Any of a class of bitter steroids, found in plants of the family Cucurbitaceae, that prevent them being eaten by herbivores.

Where does cucurbitacin come from?

Frol Cucurbita + -in.

How to pronounce cucurbitacin

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