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 ) ( 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

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

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

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