cucurbita : Idioms & Phrases

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cucurbita argyrosperma

  • noun plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds
    cushaw; Cucurbita argyrosperma.
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cucurbita foetidissima

  • noun perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
    wild pumpkin; Missouri gourd; calabazilla; buffalo gourd; prairie gourd; prairie gourd vine.
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cucurbita maxima

  • noun plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
    butternut squash.
  • noun any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind
    hubbard squash.
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cucurbita maxima turbaniformis

  • noun squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem
    turban squash.
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cucurbita mixta

  • noun plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds
    cushaw; Cucurbita argyrosperma.
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cucurbita moschata

  • noun any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks
    winter crookneck squash; winter crookneck.
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cucurbita pepo

  • 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
    autumn pumpkin; pumpkin vine; pumpkin.
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cucurbita pepo melopepo

  • noun any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden
    summer squash; summer squash vine.
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genus cucurbita

  • noun type genus of the Cucurbitaceae
    Cucurbita.
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