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Cucurbita maxima

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Noun1.Cucurbita maxima - plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rindCucurbita maxima - plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
butternut squash - buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh
winter squash, winter squash plant - any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
2.Cucurbita maxima - any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rindCucurbita maxima - any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind
hubbard squash - large football-shaped winter squash with a warty grey-green rind
Cucurbita, genus Cucurbita - type genus of the Cucurbitaceae
winter squash, winter squash plant - any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall


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University of California (Oakland, CA) and Agrigenesis Biosciences Limited (Auckland, New Zealand) have patented a polynucleotide sequence encoding a component of the protein machinery involved in small RNA trafficking, Cucurbita maxima phloem small RNA-binding protein (CmPSRB 1), and the corresponding polypeptide sequence.
 
 
 
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