cucurbitaceous
/kjuːkɜːbɪˈteɪʃəs/
cucurbitaceous adjective: pertaining to the gourd family, including cucumbers, pumpkins etc.
Adjective
cucurbitaceous (comparative more cucurbitaceous, superlative most cucurbitaceous)
- Pertaining to the gourd family, including cucumbers, pumpkins etc.
- On he goes, gabbing, gabbing, recipes for preparing beets in a hundred tasty ways, or such cucurbitaceous improbabilities as Ernest Pudding’s Gourd Surprise1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
cucurbitaceous meaning in Bengali
Forms of cucurbitaceous
| comparative | more cucurbitaceous |
|---|---|
| superlative | most cucurbitaceous |
Origin of cucurbitaceous
From Latin cucurbita (“gourd”), + -aceous.
Words that rhyme with cucurbitaceous
- gracious
- sequacious
- tenacious
- vexatious
- hellacious
- herbaceous
- ostentatious
- rapacious
- sebaceous
- vinaceous
- vivacious
- -aceous
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- acanthaceous
- alsinaceous
- audacious
- capacious
- contumacious
- cretaceous
- fallacious
- farinaceous
- flirtatious
- inefficacious
- juglandaceous
- mendacious
- micaceous
- orchidaceous
- perspicacious
- pertinacious
- salacious
- saponaceous
- spacious
- strobilaceous
- veracious
- voracious
- Acacius
- acinaceous
- alliaceous
- amentaceous
- amylaceous
- annonaceous
- apocynaceous
- argillaceous
- atramentaceous
- avenaceous
- bardacious
- bulbaceous
- camphoraceous
- camphrous
- carbonaceous
- cetaceous
- curvaceous
- dicacious
- edacious
- efficacious
- erinaceous
- fabaceous
- frumentaceous
- lamentacious
- lauraceous
- liliaceous
Questions about cucurbitaceous
- What does cucurbitaceous mean?
- Cucurbitaceous means pertaining to the gourd family, including cucumbers, pumpkins etc.
- What is cucurbitaceous in Bengali?
- Cucurbitaceous in Bengali is শশা. See Cucurbitaceous meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is cucurbitaceous?
- Cucurbitaceous is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce cucurbitaceous?
- Cucurbitaceous is pronounced /kjuːkɜːbɪˈteɪʃəs/.
Words near cucurbitaceous in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cucurbitaceous (page history and authors); cucurbitaceous (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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