1) Cucurbit
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1) Dicot family 2) Family cucurbitaceae 3) Gourd family 4) Magnoliopsid family
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The plants in this family are grown around the tropics and in temperate areas, where those with edible fruits were among the earliest cultivated plants both in the Old and New World. The Cucurbitaceae family ranks among the highest of plant families for number and percentage of species used as human food. The Cucurbitaceae consist of approximately...
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the gourd family of flowering plants, belonging to the order Cucurbitales and containing 118 genera and 845 species of food and ornamental plants. It ... [1 related articles]
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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. ... (12 Dec 1998) ...
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Cucurbitaceae is the gourd order, a large and important group of herbaceous annual or perennial plants, with alternate leaves palmately veined and scabrous, and unisexual flowers and with succulent stems which climb by means of tendrils which spring from the base of the leaf-stalks. The leaves are usually lobed and rough; the flowers often large, w...
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n] - a family of herbaceous vines (such cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)
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family Cucurbitaceae noun a family of herbaceous vines (such cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)
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