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Cucurbitaceae   Listen
noun
Cucurbitaceae  n.  A natural family of plants including the cucumber; melon; squash; and pumpkin.
Synonyms: family Cucurbitaceae, gourd family.





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"Cucurbitaceae" Quotes from Famous Books



... there were a species of Celtis; the Melia Azederach (White Cedar); a species of Phyllanthus, (a shrub from six to ten feet high); an Asclepiadaceous climber, with long terete twin capsules; and several Cucurbitaceae, one with oblong fruit about an inch long, another with a round fruit half an inch in diameter, red and white, resembling a gooseberry; a third was of an oblong form, two inches and a half long and one broad; and a fourth was of the size and form of an orange, and of a beautiful scarlet ...
— Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia • Ludwig Leichhardt


Words linked to "Cucurbitaceae" :   cucurbit, order Campanulales, cucurbitaceous, magnoliopsid family, Cucurbita, family Cucurbitaceae, genus Luffa, genus Bryonia, gourd vine, genus Lagenaria, genus Momordica, Lagenaria, Cucumis, dicot family, Citrullus, gourd family, Momordica, genus Citrullus, genus Cucumis, Campanulales


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