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93 relations: Abobra, Acanthosicyos, Alsomitra, Anisophylleaceae, Annual plant, Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, Apodanthera, Arcellinida, Berry (botany), BMC Evolutionary Biology, Brandegea, Bryonia, Calabash, Calycophysum, Carl Linnaeus, Cayaponia, Cionosicys, Citrullus, Classical Latin, Coccinia, Corallocarpus, Ctenolepis, Cucumber, Cucumis, Cucurbita, Cucurbiteae, Cyclanthera, Dendrosicyos, Diplocyclos, Ecballium, Echinocystis, Eureiandra, Family (biology), Fevillea, Fossil, Frank Hall Knowlton, Genus, Gerrardanthus, Glossary of leaf morphology, Gonochorism, Gourd, Gynostemma, Hanburia, Hodgsonia, Holocene, International Association for Plant Taxonomy, International scientific vocabulary, Israel, Kedrostis, Lagenaria, ..., Liana, Luffa, Luffa aegyptiaca, Marah (plant), Melon, Molecular phylogenetics, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Momordica, Montana, Muskmelon, New Latin, Nothoalsomitra, Outgroup (cladistics), Paleocene, Penelope, Plant, Polyclathra, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Pumpkin, Schizocarpum, Sechium, Selysia, Serration, Seyrigia, Sicana, Sicydium, Sicyos, Siraitia, Stipule, Suffix, Telfairia, Tendril, Tinda, Trichosanthes, Tumamoca, Type genus, Vine, Watermelon, Wax gourd, Xerosicyos, Zanonia, Zehneria, Zucchini. Expand index (43 more) »
Abobra
Abobra is a monotypic genus of the gourd family containing the one species Abobra tenuifolia (syn. Abobra viridiflora Naudin, Bryonia tenuifolia Hook. & Arn.). It is native to South America, and sometimes cultivated as ornamental plants and also for its edible fruits.
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Acanthosicyos
Acanthosicyos is a genus of thorny shrubs of the botanical family Cucurbitaceae, subfamily Cucurbitoideae.
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Alsomitra
Alsomitra is a genus of the plant family Cucurbitaceae (the cucumber, squash, and pumpkin family).
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Anisophylleaceae
The Anisophylleaceae are a small family with four genera and 71 species, in the order Cucurbitales, according to the APG II.
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Annual plant
An annual plant is a plant that completes its life cycle, from germination to the production of seeds, within one year, and then dies.
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Antoine Laurent de Jussieu
Antoine Laurent de Jussieu (12 April 1748 – 17 September 1836) was a French botanist, notable as the first to publish a natural classification of flowering plants; much of his system remains in use today.
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Apodanthera
Apodanthera is a genus of plants in the family Cucurbitaceae.
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Arcellinida
Arcellinid testate amoebae or Arcellinida,http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artjun03/gsamoebae.html Testate amoebae, peat bogs and past climates.
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Berry (botany)
In botany, a berry is a fleshy fruit without a stone produced from a single flower containing one ovary.
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BMC Evolutionary Biology
BMC Evolutionary Biology is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering all fields of evolutionary biology, including phylogenetics and palaeontology.
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Brandegea
Brandegea is a monotypic genus containing the single species Brandegea bigelovii, the desert starvine.
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Bryonia
Bryonia is a genus of flowering plant in the gourd family.
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Calabash
A calabash, bottle gourd, or white-flowered gourd, Lagenaria siceraria, also known by many other names, including long melon, New Guinea bean and Tasmania bean, is a vine grown for its fruit, which can be either harvested young to be consumed as a vegetable, or harvested mature to be dried and used as a utensil.
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Calycophysum
Calycophysum is a genus of the gourd family.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.
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Cayaponia
Cayaponia is the largest genus in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, with about 60 species.
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Cionosicys
Cionosicys is a genus of the gourd family.
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Citrullus
Citrullus is a genus of seven species of desert vines, among which Citrullus lanatus (the watermelon) is an important crop.
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Classical Latin
Classical Latin is the modern term used to describe the form of the Latin language recognized as standard by writers of the late Roman Republic and the Roman Empire.
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Coccinia
The scarlet gourds are a genus (Coccinia from the Greek, kokkinia or kokkinias - "red" or "scarlet") with 25 species.
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Corallocarpus
Corallocarpus is a genus of succulent plants in the family Cucurbitaceae.
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Ctenolepis
Ctenolepis is a plant genus in the family Cucurbitaceae.
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Cucumber
Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae.
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Cucumis
Cucumis is a genus of twining, tendril-bearing plants in the family Cucurbitaceae which includes the cucumber (Cucumis sativus), muskmelons (Cucumis melo, including cantaloupe and honeydew), the horned melon (Cucumis metuliferus), and the West Indian gherkin (Cucumis anguria).
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Cucurbita
Cucurbita (Latin for gourd) is a genus of herbaceous vines in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae, also known as cucurbits, native to the Andes and Mesoamerica.
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Cucurbiteae
The Cucurbiteae is a tribe of the Cucurbitoideae subfamily, which is a member of the Cucurbitaceae family, or gourd family, of flowering plants.
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Cyclanthera
Cyclanthera is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae.
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Dendrosicyos
Dendrosicyos is a monotypic genus in the plant family Cucurbitaceae.
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Diplocyclos
Diplocyclos is a genus of climbing or trailing vine in the family Cucurbitaceae.
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Ecballium
Ecballium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae containing a single species, Ecballium elaterium, also called the squirting cucumber or exploding cucumber (but not to be confused with Cyclanthera brachystachya).
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Echinocystis
Echinocystis is a monotypic genus in the gourd family, Cucurbitaceae.
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Eureiandra
Eureiandra is a genus of plant in the family Cucurbitaceae.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Fevillea
Fevillea is a genus of the plant family Cucurbitaceae (the cucumber, squash, and pumpkin family).
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Frank Hall Knowlton
Frank Hall Knowlton (September 2, 1860 - November 22, 1926) was an American botanist, ornithologist and naturalist.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Gerrardanthus
Gerrardanthus is a genus of flowering plants native to tropical Africa and South Africa, first described by William Henry Harvey (1811–1866), and named in honor of William Tyrer Gerrard (died 1866 in Mahavelona, Madagascar), botanical collector in Natal and Madagascar in the 1860s.
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Glossary of leaf morphology
The following is a defined list of terms which are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants.
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Gonochorism
In biology, gonochorism (Greek offspring + disperse) or unisexualism or gonochory describes the state of having just one of at least two distinct sexes in any one individual organism.
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Gourd
A gourd is a plant of the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly Cucurbita and Lagenaria or the fruit of the two genera of Bignoniaceae "calabash tree", Crescentia and Amphitecna.
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Gynostemma
Gynostemma is a genus of perennial climbing vines in the cucumber, gourd, and melon family, comprising at least 19 species, all native to the tropical East or Far East, inclusive of the Himalayas: China (with 9 endemic); the islands of Japan; Malaysia; and New Guinea.
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Hanburia
Hanburia gloriosa is a corynexochid trilobite known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.
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Hodgsonia
Hodgsonia is a small genus of fruit-bearing vines in the family Cucurbitaceae.
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Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch.
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International Association for Plant Taxonomy
The International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) promotes an understanding of plant biodiversity, facilitates international communication of research between botanists, and oversees matters of uniformity and stability in plant names.
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International scientific vocabulary
International scientific vocabulary (ISV) comprises scientific and specialized words whose language of origin may or may not be certain, but which are in current use in several modern languages (that is, translingually).
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Middle East, on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea.
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Kedrostis
Kedrostis is a genus of plant in the family Cucurbitaceae.
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Lagenaria
Lagenaria is a genus of gourd-bearing vines in the squash family (Cucurbitaceae).
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Liana
A liana is any of various long-stemmed, woody vines that are rooted in the soil at ground level and use trees, as well as other means of vertical support, to climb up to the canopy to get access to well-lit areas of the forest.
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Luffa
Luffa is a genus of tropical and subtropical vines in the cucumber family (Cucurbitaceae).
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Luffa aegyptiaca
Luffa aegyptiaca, the sponge gourd, Egyptian cucumber, or Vietnamese luffa, is a species of Luffa cultivated for its fruit.
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Marah (plant)
Marah (the manroots, wild cucumbers, or cucumber gourds) are flowering plants in the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), native to western North America.
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Melon
A melon is any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae with sweet edible, fleshy fruit.
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Molecular phylogenetics
Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominately in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of evolutionary biology and phylogenetics.
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Momordica
Momordica is a genus of about 60 species of annual or perennial climbers herbaceous or rarely small shrubs belonging to the family Cucurbitaceae, natives of tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia and Australia.
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Montana
Montana is a state in the Northwestern United States.
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Muskmelon
Muskmelon (Cucumis melo) is a species of melon that has been developed into many cultivated varieties.
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New Latin
New Latin (also called Neo-Latin or Modern Latin) was a revival in the use of Latin in original, scholarly, and scientific works between c. 1375 and c. 1900.
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Nothoalsomitra
Nothoalsomitra suberosa is a species of subtropical vines in the family Cucurbitaceae, the only member of the monotypic genus Nothoalsomitra.
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Outgroup (cladistics)
In cladistics or phylogenetics, an outgroup is a group of organisms that serves as a reference group when determining the evolutionary relationships of the ingroup, the set of organisms under study, and is distinct from sociological outgroups.
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Paleocene
The Paleocene or Palaeocene, the "old recent", is a geological epoch that lasted from about.
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Penelope
In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope (Πηνελόπεια, Pēnelópeia, or Πηνελόπη, Pēnelópē) is the wife of Odysseus, who is known for her fidelity to Odysseus while he was absent, despite having many suitors.
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Plant
Plants are mainly multicellular, predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae.
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Polyclathra
Polyclathra is a genus of the gourd family.
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Proceedings of the Royal Society
Proceedings of the Royal Society is the parent title of two scientific journals published by the Royal Society.
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Pumpkin
A pumpkin is a cultivar of a squash plant, most commonly of Cucurbita pepo, that is round, with smooth, slightly ribbed skin, and deep yellow to orange coloration.
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Schizocarpum
Schizocarpum is a genus of nine accepted species of flowering plants belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family.
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Sechium
Sechium is a genus in tribe Sicyoeae of the gourd family Cucurbitaceae.
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Selysia
Selysia is a genus of the gourd family.
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Serration
Serration generally refers to a saw-like appearance or a row of sharp or tooth-like projections.
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Seyrigia
Seyrigia albopunctata is a species of beetle in the family Buprestidae, the only species in the genus Seyrigia.
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Sicana
Sicana is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Cucurbitaceae.
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Sicydium
Sicydium is a genus of gobies native to fast-flowing streams and rivers of the Americas (Central America, Mexico, Cocos Island, the Caribbean, Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela) with a couple species native to Middle Africa.
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Sicyos
Sicyos is a flowering plant genus of the family Cucurbitaceae.
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Siraitia
Siraitia is a genus of plants from the Cucurbitaceae family.
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Stipule
In botany, stipule (Latin stipula: straw, stalk) is a term coined by LinnaeusConcise English Dictionary Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
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Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix (sometimes termed postfix) is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.
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Telfairia
Telfairia is a small genus of flowering plants in the squash family which are native to Africa.
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Tendril
In botany, a tendril is a specialized stem, leaves or petiole with a threadlike shape that is used by climbing plants for support, attachment and cellular invasion by parasitic plants, generally by twining around suitable hosts found by touch.
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Tinda
Tinda (ٹنڈه or ٹنڈے), also called "Indian squash", "round melon", "Indian round gourd" or "apple gourd" or "Indian baby pumpkin", is a squash-like cucurbit grown for its immature fruit, a vegetable especially popular in South Asia.
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Trichosanthes
Trichosanthes is a genus of tropical and subtropical vines.
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Tumamoca
Tumamoca is a plant genus in the family Cucurbitaceae.
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Type genus
In biological classification, especially zoology, the type genus is the genus which defines a biological family and the root of the family name.
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Vine
A vine (Latin vīnea "grapevine", "vineyard", from vīnum "wine") is any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems, lianas or runners.
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Watermelon
Citrullus lanatus is a plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, a vine-like (scrambler and trailer) flowering plant originally from Africa.
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Wax gourd
Benincasa hispida, the wax gourd, also called ash gourd, white gourd, winter gourd, tallow gourd, ash pumpkin, and winter melon, and “Chinese preserving melon” is a vine grown for its very large fruit, eaten as a vegetable when mature.
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Xerosicyos
Xerosicyos is a flowering plant genus of the family Cucurbitaceae.
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Zanonia
Zanonia is a monotypic genus in the flowering plant family Cucurbitaceae (the cucumber, squash, and pumpkin family).
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Zehneria
Zehneria is a genus of flowering plants – of vines in the cucumber and gourd family Cucurbitaceae.
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Zucchini
The zucchini (American English) or courgette (British English) is a summer squash which can reach nearly in length, but is usually harvested when still immature at about.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucurbitaceae
