Cucurbita


Definition: Meaning of, Cucurbita in English to English dictionary.

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  1. type genus of the Cucurbitaceae
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Cucurbita used in phrases

  • Cucurbita argyrosperma (noun)
    1. plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds
  • Cucurbita foetidissima (noun)
    1. perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
  • Cucurbita maxima (noun)
    1. any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind
    2. plant bearing buff-coloured squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
  • Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis (noun)
    1. squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem
  • Cucurbita mixta (noun)
    1. plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds
  • Cucurbita moschata (noun)
    1. any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks
  • Cucurbita pepo (noun)
    1. a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
  • Cucurbita pepo melopepo (noun)
    1. any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden
  • genus Cucurbita (noun)
    1. type genus of the Cucurbitaceae
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