cucurbitaceous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of cucurbitaceous
1850–55; < New Latin Cucurbitace ( ae ) ( cucurbit, -aceae ) + -ous
Example Sentences
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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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A cucurbitaceous plant had also been pulled up and accumulated in smaller heaps; and from some of the roots the little yam had been taken, but on others it remained.
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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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The omnipresent enemies of all the cucurbitaceous crops are the little cucumber beetle and the large black "stink bug."
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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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