cucurbitaceous

1. 1.

   of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae

Questions about cucurbitaceous

What does cucurbitaceous mean?

cucurbitaceous means "of or relating to plants of the family Cucurbitaceae".

How many syllables are in cucurbitaceous?

cucurbitaceous has 6 syllables: cu-cur-bi-ta-ce-ous. The stress falls on "ce".

Is cucurbitaceous a common word?

cucurbitaceous 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.