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CUCURBITA ARGYROSPERMA

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Meaning:

Plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds

Synonyms:

Cucurbita argyrosperma; Cucurbita mixta; cushaw

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Cucurbita argyrosperma" is a kind of...):

winter squash; winter squash plant (any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall)

Meronyms (parts of "Cucurbita argyrosperma"):

cushaw (globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind)

Holonyms ("Cucurbita argyrosperma" is a part of...):

Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)

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