English > Cucurbita: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | type genus of the Cucurbitaceae. |
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| Synonym | genus Cucurbita |
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| Member of | Cucurbitaceae, family Cucurbitaceae, gourd family | A family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin) |
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| Members | buttercup squash | plant bearing somewhat drum-shaped fruit having dark green rind with greyish markings |
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| hubbard squash, Cucurbita maxima | Any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind |
| prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, Missouri gourd, wild pumpkin, buffalo gourd, calabazilla, Cucurbita foetidissima | perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit |
| pumpkin, pumpkin vine, autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo | A coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds |
| squash, squash vine | Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits |
| summer squash, summer squash vine, Cucurbita pepo melopepo | Any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden |
| turban squash, Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis | squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem |
| winter squash, winter squash plant | Any of various plants of the species Cucurbita ... / Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall |
| Parts | cushaw, Cucurbita mixta, Cucurbita argyrosperma | plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds |
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| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | cucurbita, cucúrbita, género cucúrbita, genus cucurbita |
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| Catalan | cucurbita, Cucurbita, genus cucurbita |
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