Cucurbita In A Sentence

Learn how to use Cucurbita in a sentence and make better sentences with word `Cucurbita` by reading from 10 Cucurbita sentence examples.

• Pumpkin is a large orange fruit of the genus Cucurbita .
• All the various articles about cucurbita indicate probable American origins.
• A coarse, trailing vine ( Cucurbita pepo ) widely cultivated for its fruit.
• At this time, this is the most comprehensive volume on the Cucurbita genus.
• The plant species, Cucurbita pepo, is the same, but seeds and lanterns come from different varieties.
• Any of various tendril-bearing plants of the genus Cucurbita, having fleshy edible fruit with a leathery rind and unisexual flowers.
• In recent years, application of molecular markers such as AFLP, RAPD and SSR markers have speeded up the construction of Cucurbita genetic map.
• Giant Cucurbita maxima varieties, such as Big Max, Jack O'Lantern and Atlantic Giant, however, have very thick flesh and are difficult to carve.
• Archaeological investigations have found evidence of domestication of Cucurbita going back over 8, 000 years from the very southern parts of Canada down to Argentina and Chile.
• They are native to Africa and belong to the genus Lagenaria, which is in the same family and subfamily as Cucurbita but in a different tribe.