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
A pretty species of Commelyna, on the flats, a cucurbitaceous plant with quinquepalmate leaves and large white blossoms, grew along the river, the approaches of which were rendered almost inaccessible by a stiff high grass.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig
The cucurbitaceous plant with palmate leaves, bore a fruit of the size of a large orange, of a fine scarlet colour when ripe; its rind is exceedingly bitter, but the seeds are eaten by birds.
From Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 by Leichhardt, Ludwig
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
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