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Artemisia
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Broom rape
unknown · 78% connection
A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Brown root rot fungus
noun · 78% connection
fungus causing brown root rot in plants of the pea and potato and cucumber families
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Calabash
noun · 78% connection
The common gourd (plant or fruit).
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Citron
noun · 78% connection
A fruit resembling a lemon, but larger, and pleasantly aromatic. The thick rind, when candied, is the citron of commerce.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Colocynth
noun · 78% connection
The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Convolvulus
noun · 78% connection
A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (C. arwensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Cucumber
noun · 78% connection
A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten eit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Cucumiform
adjective · 78% connection
Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Cucurbitaceous
adjective · 78% connection
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a family of plants of which the cucumber, melon, and gourd are common examples.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Earth
noun · 78% connection
The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Ecballium
noun · 78% connection
A genus of cucurbitaceous plants consisting of the single species Ecballium agreste (or Elaterium), the squirting cucumber. Its fruit,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Elater
noun · 78% connection
One who, or that which, elates.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Elaterium
noun · 78% connection
A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Gherkin
noun · 78% connection
A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Gossypium
noun · 78% connection
A genus of plants which yield the cotton of the arts. The species are much confused. G. herbaceum is the name given to the common cott…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Gourd
noun · 78% connection
A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceae; and especially the bottl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
Kind
superl. · 78% connection
Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: genus, plants, including, cucumber, melon.
