Lexic.us

Definition of Cucurbita maxima

1. Noun. Plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind.

2. Noun. Any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cucurbita Maxima

Cubs Cuca Cuculidae Cuculiformes Cuculus Cuculus canorus Cucumis Cucumis melo Cucumis melo cantalupensis Cucumis melo inodorus

Cucumis melo reticulatus Cucumis sativus Cucurbita Cucurbita foetidissima Cucurbita maxima (current term) Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis Cucurbita mixta Cucurbita moschata Cucurbita pepo Cucurbita pepo melopepo

Cudworthian Cufic Cuiabá Cuidad Bolivar Cuisenaire rod Cuisenaire rods Culbertson Culcita Culcita dubia

Literary usage of Cucurbita maxima

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

1. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1886)
"They attribute no distinct common name to Cucurbita maxima. Finally, without placing implicit faith in the indigenous character of the plant on the banks of ..."

2. Garden Farming by Lee Cleveland Corbett (1913)
"The important varieties of garden squashes belong to three species, which are known as Cucurbita maxima, Cucurbita pepo, and Cucurbita moschata. ..."

3. Habit and Intelligence: A Series of Essays on the Laws of Life and Mind by Joseph John Murphy, ( (1879)
"l Variety of " Cucurbita maxima."—This was a case of bud- variation, ... Thus, " Naudin describes a Chinese variety of Cucurbita maxima which had a ..."

4. Origin of Cultivated Plants by Alphonse de Candolle (1884)
"The principal varieties of Cucurbita maxima are the great yellow gourd, ... According to Sir Joseph Hooker,4 Cucurbita maxima was found by Barter on the ..."

5. Annual Report of the State Horticultural Society of Missouri by Missouri State Horticultural Society (1891)
"... turbans, and the so-called mammoth squashes and pumpkins like Mammoth Chili and Valparaiso; these belong to a distinct species, Cucurbita maxima. ..."

6. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1895)
"Cucurbita maxima (Hubbard, American Turban, Mammoth Chili, ... Cucurbita maxima Duch. The flowers are large yellow, and in some forms like the Hubbard have ..."

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