Cucurbita
Cucurbita is a genus in the
gourd family
Cucurbitaceae first cultivated in the Americas and now used in many parts of the world. It includes species grown for their
fruit and edible
seeds (the
squashes,
pumpkins and marrows, and the
chilacayote), as well as some species grown only as gourds. They have bicollateral vascular bundles. Many North and Central American species are visited by specialist pollinators in the
apid group
Eucerini, especially the genera Peponapis and Xenoglossa, and these
bees can be very important for fruit set.
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Cucurbita
Noun
1. type genus of the Cucurbitaceae
(synonym) genus Cucurbita
(hypernym) dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus
(member-holonym) Cucurbitaceae, family Cucurbitaceae, gourd family
(member-meronym) pumpkin, pumpkin vine, autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo
(part-meronym) cushaw, Cucurbita mixta, Cucurbita argyrosperma
cucurbita
N F
gourd (plant/fruit) (Cucurbitaceae); dolt/pumpkin-head; cup| cupping-glass