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Cucurbita
(gcide) | Cucurbita \Cucurbita\ n.
the type genus of the Cucurbitaceae.
Syn: genus Cucurbita.
[WordNet 1.5] |
cucurbita
(wn) | Cucurbita
n 1: type genus of the Cucurbitaceae [syn: Cucurbita, {genus
Cucurbita}] |
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cucurbitaceous
(encz) | cucurbitaceous, adj: |
Cucurbita maxima
(gcide) | Squash \Squash\, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw,
green, immature, applied to fruit and vegetables which were
used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine
apple.] (Bot.)
A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd
kind.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is
called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China
squash, Cucurbita moschata, and the great winter
squash, Cucurbita maxima, but the distinctions are
not clear.
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Squash beetle (Zool.), a small American beetle ({Diabrotica
vittata}, syn. Galeruca vittata) which is often abundant
and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc.
It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied
also to other allied species.
Squash bug (Zool.), a large black American hemipterous
insect (Coreus tristis syn. Anasa tristis) injurious
to squash vines.
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Cucurbita moschata
(gcide) | Squash \Squash\, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw,
green, immature, applied to fruit and vegetables which were
used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine
apple.] (Bot.)
A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd
kind.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is
called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China
squash, Cucurbita moschata, and the great winter
squash, Cucurbita maxima, but the distinctions are
not clear.
[1913 Webster]
Squash beetle (Zool.), a small American beetle ({Diabrotica
vittata}, syn. Galeruca vittata) which is often abundant
and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc.
It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied
also to other allied species.
Squash bug (Zool.), a large black American hemipterous
insect (Coreus tristis syn. Anasa tristis) injurious
to squash vines.
[1913 Webster]crookneck \crook"neck`\, n.
Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their
tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is
botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and
matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with
warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a
distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and
often striped. [U. S.]
Syn: crookneck squash.
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Cucurbita pepo
(gcide) | Pumpkin \Pump"kin\, n. [For older pompion, pompon, OF. pompon,
L. pepo, peponis, Gr. ?, properly, cooked by the sun, ripe,
mellow; -- so called because not eaten till ripe. Cf. Cook,
n.] (Bot.)
A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit,
-- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.
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Pumpkin seed.
(a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin.
(b) (Zool.) The common pondfish.
[1913 Webster]crookneck \crook"neck`\, n.
Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their
tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is
botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and
matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with
warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a
distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and
often striped. [U. S.]
Syn: crookneck squash.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.] |
Cucurbita verrucosa
(gcide) | Squash \Squash\, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw,
green, immature, applied to fruit and vegetables which were
used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine
apple.] (Bot.)
A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd
kind.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is
called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China
squash, Cucurbita moschata, and the great winter
squash, Cucurbita maxima, but the distinctions are
not clear.
[1913 Webster]
Squash beetle (Zool.), a small American beetle ({Diabrotica
vittata}, syn. Galeruca vittata) which is often abundant
and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc.
It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied
also to other allied species.
Squash bug (Zool.), a large black American hemipterous
insect (Coreus tristis syn. Anasa tristis) injurious
to squash vines.
[1913 Webster] |
Cucurbitaceae
(gcide) | Cucurbitaceae \Cucurbitaceae\ n.
a natural family of plants including the cucumber; melon;
squash; and pumpkin.
Syn: family Cucurbitaceae, gourd family.
[WordNet 1.5] |
Cucurbitaceous
(gcide) | Cucurbitaceous \Cu*cur`bi*ta"ceous\ (-b[i^]*t[=a]"sh[u^]s), a.
[Cf. F. cucurbitac['e].] (Bot.)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which
the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.
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cucurbita
(wn) | Cucurbita
n 1: type genus of the Cucurbitaceae [syn: Cucurbita, {genus
Cucurbita}] |
cucurbita argyrosperma
(wn) | Cucurbita argyrosperma
n 1: plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with
variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds
[syn: cushaw, Cucurbita mixta, {Cucurbita
argyrosperma}] |
cucurbita foetidissima
(wn) | Cucurbita foetidissima
n 1: perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern
United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green
inedible fruit [syn: prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine,
Missouri gourd, wild pumpkin, buffalo gourd,
calabazilla, Cucurbita foetidissima] |
cucurbita maxima
(wn) | Cucurbita maxima
n 1: plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-
shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth
thin rind [syn: butternut squash, Cucurbita maxima]
2: any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-
green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind [syn:
hubbard squash, Cucurbita maxima] |
cucurbita maxima turbaniformis
(wn) | Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis
n 1: squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat
like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding
from the end opposite the stem [syn: turban squash,
Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis] |
cucurbita mixta
(wn) | Cucurbita mixta
n 1: plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with
variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds
[syn: cushaw, Cucurbita mixta, {Cucurbita
argyrosperma}] |
cucurbita moschata
(wn) | Cucurbita moschata
n 1: any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and
elongated recurved necks [syn: winter crookneck, {winter
crookneck squash}, Cucurbita moschata] |
cucurbita pepo
(wn) | Cucurbita pepo
n 1: 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 [syn: pumpkin, pumpkin vine,
autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo] |
cucurbita pepo melopepo
(wn) | Cucurbita pepo melopepo
n 1: any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is
eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden
[syn: summer squash, summer squash vine, {Cucurbita
pepo melopepo}] |
cucurbitaceae
(wn) | Cucurbitaceae
n 1: a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or
squash or pumpkin) [syn: Cucurbitaceae, {family
Cucurbitaceae}, gourd family] |
cucurbitaceous
(wn) | cucurbitaceous
adj 1: of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae |
family cucurbitaceae
(wn) | family Cucurbitaceae
n 1: a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or
squash or pumpkin) [syn: Cucurbitaceae, {family
Cucurbitaceae}, gourd family] |
genus cucurbita
(wn) | genus Cucurbita
n 1: type genus of the Cucurbitaceae [syn: Cucurbita, {genus
Cucurbita}] |
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