GENUS CUCUMIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cucumis mean? 

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

1. cucumbers; muskmelons

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CUCUMIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cucumbers; muskmelons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cucumis; genus Cucumis

Hypernyms ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus Cucumis" is a member of...):

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