Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

cucurbitaceous

/kjuːkɜːbɪˈteɪʃəs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: cu-cur-bita-ceous
IPA: /kjuːkɜːbɪˈteɪʃəs/

22

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

4

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Pertaining to the gourd family, including cucumbers, pumpkins etc.

Example Sentences

"On he goes, gabbing, gabbing, recipes for preparing beets in a hundred tasty ways, or such cucurbitaceous improbabilities as Ernest Pudding’s Gourd Surprise"

Etymology

From Latin cucurbita (“gourd”), + -aceous.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: aceous

Inflected Forms

more cucurbitaceous (comparative) most cucurbitaceous (superlative)

Rhymes With

gracious spacious cretaceous tenacious audacious gaseous herbaceous voracious flirtatious vivacious ostentatious fallacious

Questions

How do you pronounce cucurbitaceous?: The recorded pronunciation is /kjuːkɜːbɪˈteɪʃəs/.
What does cucurbitaceous mean?: Pertaining to the gourd family, including cucumbers, pumpkins etc.
Where does cucurbitaceous come from?: From Latin cucurbita (“gourd”), + -aceous.

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