cucurbita

Questions about cucurbita

What does cucurbita mean?

cucurbita means "type genus of the Cucurbitaceae".

How many syllables are in cucurbita?

cucurbita has 4 syllables and divides as cu-cur-bi-ta under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for cucurbita?

Close synonyms include genus Cucurbita. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cucurbita a common word?

cucurbita is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.