CUCURBITA FOETIDISSIMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cucurbita foetidissima mean? 

• CUCURBITA FOETIDISSIMA (noun)
  The noun CUCURBITA FOETIDISSIMA has 1 sense:

1. perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit

  Familiarity information: CUCURBITA FOETIDISSIMA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUCURBITA FOETIDISSIMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

buffalo gourd; calabazilla; Cucurbita foetidissima; Missouri gourd; prairie gourd; prairie gourd vine; wild pumpkin

Hypernyms ("Cucurbita foetidissima" is a kind of...):

gourd; gourd vine (any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds)

Meronyms (parts of "Cucurbita foetidissima"):

prairie gourd (small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant)

Holonyms ("Cucurbita foetidissima" is a member of...):

Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)