NOUN
- a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
How To Use Cucurbita pepo In A Sentence
- ‘Our research has shown that members of the Cucurbita pepo species, including pumpkins, are particularly effective in this regard,’ he says.
- = Cucurbita pepo = pumpkin (used for Halloween pumpkins) Potiron - French Word-A-Day
- Investigators agree that Cucurbita pepo fruits would have been used primarily as containers, or perhaps as rattles, rather than food.
- Pragmatics perhaps explains cucurbita pepo's lack of popularity: if one assumes they are always merely marrows, who would want to eat them?
