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    GENUS CUCURBITA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Type genus of the Cucurbitaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (parts of "genus Cucurbita"):

    Cucurbita argyrosperma; Cucurbita mixta; cushaw (plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds)

    Meronyms (members of "genus Cucurbita"):

    autumn pumpkin; Cucurbita pepo; pumpkin; pumpkin vine (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)

    squash; squash vine (any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits)

    Cucurbita pepo melopepo; summer squash; summer squash vine (any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden)

    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)

    Cucurbita maxima; hubbard squash (any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind)

    Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis; turban squash (squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem)

    buttercup squash (plant bearing somewhat drum-shaped fruit having dark green rind with greyish markings)

    buffalo gourd; calabazilla; Cucurbita foetidissima; Missouri gourd; prairie gourd; prairie gourd vine; wild pumpkin (perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit)

    Holonyms ("genus Cucurbita" is a 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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