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    CUCURBITACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)play

    Synonyms:

    Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Cucurbitaceae" is a kind of...):

    dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

    Meronyms (members of "Cucurbitaceae"):

    gourd; gourd vine (any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds)

    Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)

    genus Bryonia (climbing perennial herbs: bryony)

    Citrullus; genus Citrullus (a dicot genus of the family Cucurbitaceae including watermelons)

    Cucumis; genus Cucumis (cucumbers; muskmelons)

    Ecballium; genus Ecballium (exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber)

    genus Lagenaria; Lagenaria (bottle gourds)

    genus Luffa (dishcloth gourds)

    genus Momordica; Momordica (Old World tropical vine)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Cucurbitaceae"):

    cucurbit (any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae)

    Holonyms ("Cucurbitaceae" is a member of...):

    Campanulales; order Campanulales (an order of plants of the subclass Asteridae including: Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Compositae)

    Derivation:

    cucurbitaceous (of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae)

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