CUCURBITA MIXTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cucurbita mixta mean? 

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

1. plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUCURBITA MIXTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cucurbita argyrosperma; Cucurbita mixta; cushaw

Hypernyms ("Cucurbita mixta" 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 mixta"):

cushaw (globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind)

Holonyms ("Cucurbita mixta" is a part of...):

Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)