cucurbitaceous

American  

[kyoo-kur-bi-tey-shuhs] / kyuˌkɜr bɪˈteɪ ʃəs /

adjective

1. belonging to the Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family of plants.

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Etymology

Origin of cucurbitaceous

1850–55; < New Latin Cucurbitace ( ae ) ( see cucurbit, -aceae) + -ous

Example Sentences

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 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.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 by Mitchell, Thomas

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