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Cucurbit

noun
1.
Any plant of the family Cucurbitaceae.



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Cucurbitaceae
family Cucurbitaceae


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"Cucurbit" Quotes from Famous Books



... unfortunately he is picturesque at all costs. Thus he constantly puts "purfled" where he means "embroidered" or "sown," and in the "Tale of the Fisherman and the Jinni," he uses incorrectly the pretty word "cucurbit" [474] to express a brass pot; and many other instances might be quoted. His lapses, indeed, indicate that he had no real sense of the value of words. He uses them because they are pretty, forgetting that no word is ...
— The Life of Sir Richard Burton • Thomas Wright


Words linked to "Cucurbit" :   Cucurbitaceae, gourd family


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