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Cucurbita pepo

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Noun1.Cucurbita pepo - a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seedsCucurbita pepo - 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
pumpkin - usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn
pumpkin seed - the edible seed of a pumpkin
Cucurbita, genus Cucurbita - type genus of the Cucurbitaceae
squash, squash vine - any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits


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Botanically the courgette is one of the variations found within the species Cucurbita pepo but varies from some of the modern round varieties such as Eight Ball to the 75cm long Italian variety called Tromboncino.
ELASTONYL[R] is obtained from the plant Cucurbita pepo.
A long, slender, dark green variety of summer squash belong to the cucurbitaceae family of the genera cucurbita pepo, zucchini, in shape and size, resembles a cucumber.
 
 
 
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