CUCURBITA MAXIMA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cucurbita maxima mean? 

• CUCURBITA MAXIMA (noun)
  The noun CUCURBITA MAXIMA has 2 senses:

1. plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind

2. any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind

  Familiarity information: CUCURBITA MAXIMA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUCURBITA MAXIMA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

butternut squash; Cucurbita maxima

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

winter squash; winter squash plant (any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall)

Meronyms (parts of "Cucurbita maxima"):

butternut squash (buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cucurbita maxima; hubbard squash

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

winter squash; winter squash plant (any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall)

Meronyms (parts of "Cucurbita maxima"):

hubbard squash (large football-shaped winter squash with a warty grey-green rind)

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

Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)