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CUCURBITA MIXTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds
Synonyms:
Cucurbita argyrosperma; Cucurbita mixta; cushaw
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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)