prickly cucumber (Echinocystis lobata; a plant in the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) with spiny fruits) · Chayote, some varieties of which have spiny fruits.
köken: Inherited from Malay labu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *labuq₂ (“the bottle gourd: Lagenaria siceraria”); reconstructed by Robert Blust (compare Tboli labuk (“the bottle gourd: Lagenaria siceraria”), Central Dusun hobuʔ (“calabash, type of gourd”)); alternatively, from Sanskrit अलाबु (alābu). Note that the reconstruction by Blust explained the final plosive in Tboli and Dusun that a derivation…