chicayote

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A name in Mexico of several wild gourd-like plants, especially of Cucurbita fœtidissima, which is also known as calabacilla amarga (‘bitter gourd’), and of Cucurbita radicans. The name appears in various forms. In California, as chilicothe, it is applied to Micrampelis macrocarpa. See chilicothe and calabasilla.