cucurbitaceous

[ kyoo-kur-bi-tey-shuhs ]

adjective

1. belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cucurbitaceous¹

1850–55; < New Latin Cucurbitace ( ae ) ( cucurbit, -aceae ) + -ous

Example Sentences

Khira, or cucumbers, grow to great perfection, and with another cucurbitaceous plant called Kangkari, are ripe from the 13th of June to the 15th of August.

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As great a paucity of grass also prevailed here, except on the riverbank, and as great an abundance of the same atriplex and cucurbitaceous plants as I had noticed elsewhere.

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The growth of melons, water-melons and other cucurbitaceous plants is reckoned very important, especially near towns; and this crop counts for a distinct harvest.

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It is useless to plant melons and other cucurbitaceous plants until settled weather has arrived.

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It is this air, at once hot and humid, that nourishes those vegetable reservoirs, the cucurbitaceous plants, the agaves and melocactuses half-buried in the sand.

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