| English | balsam-pear | | | 1 | Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). |
| English | Chinese bitter-cucumber | | | 1 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| English | Chinese-cucumber | | | 1 | Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2 |
| English | gac | | | 1 | Chuyen, H. V. et al. 2015. Gac fruit (Momordica cochinchinensis Spreng.): a rich source of bioactive compounds and its potential health benefits. Int. J. Food Sci. Technol. 50:567-577. DOI: 10.1111/ijfs.12721. |
| English | giant spine gourd | | | 1 | Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 12(1):358. |
| English | spiny bitter-cucumber | | | 1 | Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening |
| English | sweet gourd | | | 1 | Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 12(1):358. |
| Assamese | bhat karela | | | 2 | Facciola, S. 1990. Cornucopia, a source book of edible plants Kampong Publications. |
| French | muricie | | | 2 | Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA) 12(1):358. |
| German | indische Bittergurke | | | 2 | Erhardt, W. et al. 2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 1561. |
| Spanish | cundeamor | | | 2 | Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants |
| Swedish | taggig bittergurka | | | 2 | Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource) |
| Transcribed Chinese | mu bie zi | | | 2 | Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994-. Flora of China (English edition). |