Meanings of cucumis in English

Both the melon (cucaimis melo) and the water-melon (cucumis citrullus) were introduced into England at the end of the sixteenth century.

The word cucumis used in the original of this passage embraces many of the cucurbitaceae, but the context shows that here means the cucumber.

Here we report the draft genome sequence of Cucumis sativus var.

A species of the Cucumis, a genus of plants to which the cucumber belongs.

With Cucumis dudaim they stood at noon at 45o above the horizon, and closed at night.

I have often consulted and taken some facts from M. Naudin's Memoir on Cucumis in 'Annal.

Melon (Cucumis melo L.) is a significant source of substances able to provide human health benefits.

In the present work, a chromosome painting method for single-copy gene pools in Cucumis sativus was successfully developed.

But the most surprising plant of the Desert is the "Kengwe or Keme" ('Cucumis caffer'), the watermelon.

Our study establishes that five of the cucumber's seven chromosomes arose from fusions of ten ancestral chromosomes after divergence from Cucumis melo.

I may add that in one variety of the cucumber (Cucumis sativus) the fruit regularly contains five carpels instead of three.

But the monkey was really a coffee-stain on the margin of page 496 of Schweigaard's Process, which I had borrowed from my friend Cucumis.

Here every now and then we discovered withered melons (Cucumis colocynthis); the leaves had long since disappeared, and the shrivelled stalks were brittle as glass.