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Definition: Cucurbitaceae |
CucurbitaceaeNoun1. A family of herbaceous vines (such cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | The gourd family of flowering plants that belongs to the order Violales. It includes cucumbers, gourds, melons, squashes, and pumpkins. It is sometimes placed in its own order, Cucurbitales. (references) |
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Abobra Acanthosicyos Actinostemma Alsomitra Ampelosycios Anacaona Apatzingania Apodanthera Bambekea Benincasa Biswarea Bolbostemma Brandegea Bryonia Calycophysum Cayaponia Cephalopentandra Ceratosanthes Chalema Cionosicyos Citrullus Coccinia Cogniauxia Corallocarpus Cremastopus Ctenolepis Cucumella Cucumeropsis Cucumis Cucurbita Cucurbitella Cyclanthera Dactyliandra Dendrosicyos Dicoelospermum Dieterlea Diplocyclos Doyerea Ecballium Echinocystis Echinopepon Edgaria Elateriopsis Eureiandra Fevillea Gerrardanthus Gomphogyne Gurania Guraniopsis Gymnopetalum Gynostemma Halosicyos Hanburia Helmontia Hemsleya Herpetospermum Hodgsonia Ibervillea Indofevillea Kedrostis Lagenaria Lemurosicyos Luffa Marah Melancium Melothria Melothrianthus Microsechium Momordica Muellerargia Mukia Myrmecosicyos Neoalsomitra Nothoalsomitra Odosicyos Oreosyce Parasicyos Penelopeia Peponium Peponopsis Polyclathra Posadaea Praecitrullus Pseudocyclanthera Pseudosicydium Psiguria Pteropepon Pterosicyos Raphidiocystis Ruthalicia Rytidostylis Schizocarpum Schizopepon Sechiopsis Sechium Selysia Seyrigia Sicana Sicydium Sicyos Sicyosperma Siolmatra Siraitia Solena Tecunumania Telfairia Thladiantha Trichosanthes Tricyclandra Trochomeria Trochomeriopsis Tumacoca Vaseyanthus Wilbrandia Xerosicyos Zanonia Zehneria Zombitsia Zygosicyos | ||||||||||
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cucurbitaceae."
Synonyms: CucurbitaceaeSynonyms: family Cucurbitaceae (n), gourd family (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cucurbitaceae |
| English words defined with "Cucurbitaceae": Campanulales, Citrullus, cucurbit, Cucurbita, cucurbitaceous ♦ genus Citrullus, genus Cucurbita, gourd, gourd vine ♦ order Campanulales. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cucurbitaceae" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Latin (cucurbits, gourd family). |
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| "Cucurbitaceae" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cucurbitaceae" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
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Expression using "Cucurbitaceae": family Cucurbitaceae. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cucurbitaceae | 6 |
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| Language | Translations for "Cucurbitaceae"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | ç"œç§‘ (gourd family). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | ã†ã‚Šã‹ (gourd family). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ucurbitaceaecay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-c-c-c-e-e-i-r-t-u-u" | |
-4 letters: brecciate. | |
-5 letters: accurate, acerbate, acierate, aubretia, aubrieta, bacteria, cruciate, cubature, cucurbit. | |
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