Cucurbita pepo melopepo
- noun
- /kuˈkɜr.bɪ.tə ˈpɛ.poʊ mɛˈloʊ.pɛ.poʊ/
- Specialized
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calabacín
- Farmers often grow Cucurbita pepo melopepo varieties like zucchini and pattypan squash for summer harvest.
Examples
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The nutritionist recommended including Cucurbita pepo melopepo in the diet because of its low calorie content.
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Young chefs are learning new ways to prepare dishes with Cucurbita pepo melopepo for a healthy menu.
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I love to cook with Cucurbita pepo melopepo.
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Have you ever tried Cucurbita pepo melopepo in a salad?
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Farmers often grow Cucurbita pepo melopepo varieties like zucchini and pattypan squash for summer harvest.
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The nutritionist recommended including Cucurbita pepo melopepo in the diet because of its low calorie content.
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Young chefs are learning new ways to prepare dishes with Cucurbita pepo melopepo for a healthy menu.
Synonyms
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A large edible fruit from plants like pumpkin or zucchini used as a vegetable
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A soft vegetable like zucchini eaten while its skin is still tender
A bushy plant that grows soft edible squash eaten young
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'Cucurbita' (a gourd genus) and 'pepo' (a pepo-type fruit) give a clear clue that the phrase names a kind of squash, and botanical Latin binomials are internationally recognizable, so a learner could infer a general ‘squash plant’ meaning. However the specific epithet 'melopepo' is not transparent or defined here, and the precise horticultural sense (bushy plants grown for immature edible fruit) is specialized and not fully predictable from the parts, so only partial understanding is likely.
Etymology
Cucurbita pepo melopepo may come from old words for plants that look like small melons. The parts Cucurbita (a word for 'gourd'), pepo ('melon' or 'pumpkin') and melopepo ('melon-like pepo') give the picture of round, edible squash. So the name points to the kind of summer squash, like zucchini and pattypan, that we pick young and eat.