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

Several other very interesting cucurbitaceous fruits, and large reeds, were observed among the rubbish which had accumulated round the trees during the flood.

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

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

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