Definition of Cucurbita

1. Noun. Type genus of the Cucurbitaceae.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Cucurbita

Cubans
Cubist
Cubists
Cubs
Cuca
Cuculidae
Cuculiformes
Cuculus
Cuculus canorus
Cucumis
Cucumis melo
Cucumis melo cantalupensis
Cucumis melo inodorus
Cucumis melo reticulatus
Cucumis sativus
Cucurbita (current term)
Cucurbita foetidissima
Cucurbita maxima
Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis
Cucurbita mixta
Cucurbita moschata
Cucurbita pepo
Cucurbita pepo melopepo
Cudworthian
Cufic
Cuiabá
Cuidad Bolivar
Cuisenaire rod
Cuisenaire rods

Literary usage of Cucurbita

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray (1889)
"These forms our author reduces to six species, and the alimentary sorts in cultivation to three, namely, Cucurbita maxima, C. Pepo, and C. moschata. ..."

2. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science : Containing a Concise by Robley Dunglison (1868)
"The «eeds of this plant, Pepo (Ph. US), as well as those of Cucurbita lagenaria, ... composed of rings which resemble the seeds of the gourd,—cucurbita. ..."

3. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"Cucurbita Pepo, Linne. The Pumpkin and Vegetable Marrow. Countries on the Caspian Sea. Its naturalisation in the desert would be a boon. ..."

4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1900)
"RADIATE STRUCTURE OF THE WILD GOURD (Cucurbita FOETIDISSIMA). ... plains none is more uniquely conspicuous in time of drouth than the wild gourd, Cucurbita ..."

5. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1852)
"... AND WATERMELON (Cucurbita citrullus). By JH SALISBURY, MD, of Albany. THE varieties examined were the Nutmeg Muskmelon and the Long Red-flesh Watermelon ..."

6. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"Having an arrangement of parts as in the Genus Cucurbita. ... A doubtful alkaloid of the tetti* of the pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo. Cucurbit! nus. ..."

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