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Meanings of Cucurbitaceae in English
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cucurbitaceae A family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)
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Examples for "family Cucurbitaceae"
Examples for "family Cucurbitaceae"
1
Pumpkin is a member of the gourd family, which includes cucumbers, honeydew melons, cantaloupe, watermelons and zucchini.
2
Collinquintida Ð a bitter apple of the gourd family whose soft fruit made a purgative drug 59.
3
Many similar cases of analogous variation have been observed by Naudin in the great gourd family, and by various authors in our cereals.
Usage of Cucurbitaceae in English
1
I have seen or can see Cucurbitaceae, Passion-flower, Virginian-creeper, Cissus discolor, Common-pea and Everlasting-pea.
2
Wight, "Remarks on the Fruit of the Natural Order Cucurbitaceae" ("Ann.
3
Cucurbitacins are triterpenes compounds found in plants of the Cucurbitaceae family, reported to have anticancer and anti-inflammatory activities.
4
We don't want authorities on the Cucurbitaceæ, but well-informedcitizens.
5
The plant to which I at present refer is one of the cucurbitaceae, which bears a small, scarlet-colored, eatable cucumber.
6
The word cucumis used in the original of this passage embraces many of the cucurbitaceae, but the context shows that here means the cucumber.
7
* (* After these three great families follow the papaveraceae, the chicoraceae, the lobeliaceae, the campanulaceae, the sapoteae, and the cucurbitaceae.
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