cucurbitaceous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cucurbitaceous
1850–55; < New Latin Cucurbitace ( ae ) ( see cucurbit, -aceae) + -ous
Example Sentences
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Into his bursting composition he paints a current cucurbitaceous self-portrait.
From Time Magazine Archive
Much of their madness is visual, relying on Hen-dra's cucurbitaceous shape and Dolly Sister face and on Ullett's saturnine suavity.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Mitchell, Thomas
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.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Humboldt, Alexander von
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.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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