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Cucurbitaceous   Listen
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Cucurbitaceous  adj.  (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.






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"Cucurbitaceous" Quotes from Famous Books



... this subject by an interesting, but short paper by Professor Asa Gray on the movements of the tendrils of some Cucurbitaceous plants. {2} My observations were more than half completed before I learnt that the surprising phenomenon of the spontaneous revolutions of the stems and tendrils of climbing plants had been long ago observed by Palm and ...
— The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants • Charles Darwin



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