cucurbita

1. Type genus of the Cucurbitaceae (synset 112178665)
   is a type of: dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus - genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
   member holonym:

   • autumn pumpkin, cucurbita pepo, pumpkin, pumpkin vine - a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
   • squash, squash vine - any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
   • cucurbita pepo melopepo, summer squash, summer squash vine - any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden
   • winter squash, winter squash plant - any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
   • cucurbita maxima, hubbard squash - any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind
   • cucurbita maxima turbaniformis, turban squash - squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem
   • buttercup squash - plant bearing somewhat drum-shaped fruit having dark green rind with greyish markings
   • buffalo gourd, calabazilla, cucurbita foetidissima, missouri gourd, prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, wild pumpkin - perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
   belongs to: cucurbitaceae, family cucurbitaceae, gourd family - a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)
   has: cucurbita argyrosperma, cucurbita mixta, cushaw - plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds
   same as: genus cucurbita

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