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GENUS CUCUMIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cucumis mean?
• GENUS CUCUMIS (noun)
The noun GENUS CUCUMIS has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: GENUS CUCUMIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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))
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