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A family of herbaceous vines (such cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)
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cucurbitaceae
Word definitions for cucurbitaceae in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cucurbitaceae \Cucurbitaceae\ n. a natural family of plants including the cucumber; melon; squash; and pumpkin. Syn: family Cucurbitaceae , gourd family.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Cucurbitaceae , also called cucurbits and the gourd family , are a plant family consisting of ca 965 species in around 95 genera , the most important of which are: Cucurbita – squash , pumpkin , zucchini , some gourds Lagenaria – mostly inedible gourds ...
Usage examples of cucurbitaceae.
Vitaceae, Cucurbitaceae, and Bignoniaceae, in which slight pressure causes a cellular outgrowth.
Cruciferae, Cucurbitaceae, Githago, and Beta, never last even for a week, to any conspicuous degree.
Leguminosae, Malvaceae, Cucurbitaceae and Gramineae, we may infer that this character is common to the roots of most seedling plants.
But with most of the Cucurbitaceae there is a curious special contrivance for bursting the seedcoats whilst beneath the ground, namely, a peg at the base of the hypocotyl, projecting at right angles, which holds down the lower half of the seedcoats, whilst the growth of the arched part of the hypocotyl lifts up the upper half, and thus splits them in twain.