Cucurbitaceous. World English Historical Dictionary

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a. Bot. [f. mod.L. Cucurbitaceæ, f. cucurbita: see -ACEOUS.] Belonging to the Natural Order Cucurbitaceæ, comprising trailing or climbing plants with fleshy fruits, as the Gourd, Cucumber, Melon, etc.

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1853.  Th. Ross, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., III. xxvi. 114. This air, at once hot and humid … nourishes those vegetable reservoirs, the cucurbitaceous plants.

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1880.  C. & F. Darwin, Movem. Pl., 104. One Cucurbitaceous genus.

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