CUCUMIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cucumis mean? 

• CUCUMIS (noun)
  The noun CUCUMIS has 1 sense:

1. cucumbers; muskmelons

  Familiarity information: CUCUMIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUCUMIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cucumbers; muskmelons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cucumis; genus Cucumis

Hypernyms ("Cucumis" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Cucumis"):

Cucumis melo; muskmelon; sweet melon; sweet melon vine (any of several varieties of vine whose fruit has a netted rind and edible flesh and a musky smell)

cucumber; cucumber vine; Cucumis sativus (a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit)

Holonyms ("Cucumis" is a member of...):

Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family (a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin))

 Context examples 

The oil extracted from the seeds of Cucumis sativus.

(Cucumber Seed Oil, NCI Thesaurus)