Library / English Dictionary

CUCURBITACEAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)

Synonyms:

Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Cucurbitaceae" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Cucurbitaceae"):

gourd; gourd vine (any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds)

Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)

genus Bryonia (climbing perennial herbs: bryony)

Citrullus; genus Citrullus (a dicot genus of the family Cucurbitaceae including watermelons)

Cucumis; genus Cucumis (cucumbers; muskmelons)

Ecballium; genus Ecballium (exploding cucumber; squirting cucumber)

genus Lagenaria; Lagenaria (bottle gourds)

genus Luffa (dishcloth gourds)

genus Momordica; Momordica (Old World tropical vine)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Cucurbitaceae"):

cucurbit (any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae)

Holonyms ("Cucurbitaceae" is a member of...):

Campanulales; order Campanulales (an order of plants of the subclass Asteridae including: Campanulaceae; Lobeliaceae; Cucurbitaceae; Goodeniaceae; Compositae)

Derivation:

cucurbitaceous (of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae)

Credits