FAMILY CUCURBITACEAE Synonyms
There are 2 hypernyms of the phrase family cucurbitaceae. (close relations)
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| cucumber | nounn | |||||
noun • a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit • cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons | ||||||
| gourd | nounn | |||||
noun • bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd • any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds • any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds | ||||||
| melon | nounn | |||||
noun • any of numerous fruits of the gourd family having a hard rind and sweet juicy flesh • any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers | ||||||
| pumpkin | nounn | |||||
noun • 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 • usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn | ||||||
| squash | verb, noun, adjectivev, n, adj | |||||
noun • any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits • edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable • a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets verb • to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition | ||||||
| cucurbitaceae | nounn | |||||
noun • a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin) | ||||||
| gourd family | nounn | |||||
noun • a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin) | ||||||
