English words for 'Cucurbita moschata'
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noun
- Cucurbita moschata
- Cucurbita argyrosperma
- Cucurbita pepo
- Cucurbita maxima
- any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
- any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months
adj
- Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
- Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
- Panting and out of breath.
- Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
- Having failed.
- (of glass) Formed by blowing.
- being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor
- breathing laboriously or convulsively
verb
adj
prefix
noun
adj
noun
noun
- a wing of an insect
- a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- (botany) The flattened border of some stems, fruits, and seeds, or one of the two side petals of certain flowers in the pea family.
- (anatomy) A wing or winglike anatomic process or part, especially of bone.
- (architecture) In ancient Rome, a small room opening into a larger room or courtyard.
prep
noun
- A kind of stonefly.
- (slang, drugs, Canada, US) The crystalline or powdered form of MDA.
- (New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.
- A wren.
- A willow.
- An object made from the wood of a willow.
- Any tree that resembles a willow.
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
- An excursion or side trip.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- (figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
- a venture off the beaten path
- witty remark
verb
noun
- slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
- a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A needle used for darning.
- A damselfly, or a dragonfly that resembles one.
noun
- slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
- common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
- A stick insect.
- Clematis virginiana, a vine native to the United States.
- A dragonfly.
- A cranefly.
noun
- slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
- mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker
- (US, regional) A dragonfly.
- (US, regional) A crane fly (US) / daddy longlegs (UK), a large, mosquito-like insect in the suborder Tipulomorpha
- (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Micromidia, endemic to eastern Australia.
noun
- The larva of a mosquito.
- larva of a mosquito
- (physics) A magnet designed to make a beam of charged particles follow a curving path in an accelerator.
- (Southern US) An earthworm.
- (manufacturing) Any of several types of tool for center-finding or edge-finding in manufacturing, especially metalworking.
- terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- one who can't stay still (especially a child)
noun
noun
- Darmera peltata
- Cyperus alternifolius
- Diphylleia cymosa
- Heptapleurum arboricola
- Podophyllum peltatum
- Eriogonum longifolium var. harperi
- rhizomatous perennial herb with large dramatic peltate leaves and white to bright pink flowers in round heads on leafless stems; colonizes stream banks in the Sierra Nevada in California
- late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters
- African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
noun
- Ellipsis of whirligig beetle.
- Anything that whirls or spins around, such as a toy top or a merry-go-round.
- (historical) A device for punishing prisoners, comprising a wooden cage that rapidly spins around to induce nausea.
- A device incorporating spinning, wind-driven propellers or pinwheels, used as whimsical outdoor decoration in a garden or on a porch.
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement
verb
noun
noun
- A moth, Mythimna ferrago
- An earth material with ductile qualities.
- (Internet slang, humorous) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.
- A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
- (biblical) The material of the human body.
- (tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
- (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
- A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
- water soaked soil; soft wet earth
- the dead body of a human being
- a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
verb
noun
- A scale insect.
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
- (uncountable) Limescale.
- Size; scope.
- (uncountable) The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- (uncountable, US) An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
- A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade.
- (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
- an ordered reference standard
- a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
- relative magnitude
- a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
- the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it
- a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
- a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
- (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
verb
- (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- (transitive) To climb to the top of.
- (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- (transitive) To remove the scales of.
- (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
- (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- (manufacturing, transitive) To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions. This practice often works but can produce latently incorrect results and is thus usually deprecated.
- (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
- measure by or as if by a scale
- climb up by means of a ladder
- take by attacking with scaling ladders
- reach the highest point of
- remove the scales from
- measure with or as if with scales
- pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
- size or measure according to a scale
noun
- Penestola bufalis (black penestola moth)
- Biston betularia (peppered moth)
- Epicoma melanospila (black spot moth)
- Glacies coracina (black mountain moth)
- Celiptera frustulum (black bit moth)
- Langessa nomophilalis (black langessa moth)
- Arctornis l-nigrum (black V moth)
- Metalectra tantillus (black fungus moth)
- Hypena scabra (black snout moth)
- Parascotia fuliginaria (waved black moth)
- Panthea acronyctoides (black zigzag moth)
- Idia lubricalis (glossy black idia moth)
- Zale undularis (black zale moth)
- Ascalapha odorata (black witch moth)
- Trichodezia albovittata (white-striped black moth)
- Siona lineata (black-veined moth)
noun
- Any insect.
- (television) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
- Any of various species of marine (saltwater or freshwater) crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
- (gambling, slang) A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
- Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
- (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
- A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device
- (informal) Any minibeast.
- (entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
- A semi-automated telegraph key.
- (chiefly computing, engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing.
- (informal) An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
- A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
- (Maine) A lobster.
- (gambling, slang) A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
- (poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
- (paleontology, slang) A trilobite.
- (slang, US, horse-racing) An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
- (printing) Synonym of union bug.
- (informal) A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
- (slang, US, horse-racing, by extension) A young apprentice jockey.
- (informal) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
- A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
- (chiefly LGBTQ, "the bug") HIV.
- insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
- general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
- a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
- a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
- a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
verb
- (transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
- (intransitive, of eyes) To bulge or protrude.
- (informal, transitive) To annoy.
- (informal, intransitive) To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
- (transitive) To represent (a value) using a bug on an instrument.
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- annoy persistently
noun
noun
verb
noun
- Cucurbita moschata
- Cucurbita argyrosperma
- Cucurbita pepo
- Cucurbita maxima
- any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
- any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months
noun
noun
- a wing of an insect
- a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- (botany) The flattened border of some stems, fruits, and seeds, or one of the two side petals of certain flowers in the pea family.
- (anatomy) A wing or winglike anatomic process or part, especially of bone.
- (architecture) In ancient Rome, a small room opening into a larger room or courtyard.
prep
noun
- A kind of stonefly.
- (slang, drugs, Canada, US) The crystalline or powdered form of MDA.
- (New Zealand, slang) A member of the Salvation Army.
- A wren.
- A willow.
- An object made from the wood of a willow.
- Any tree that resembles a willow.
- A tufted woollen part of a bellrope, used to provide grip when ringing a bell.
- A sortie of troops from a besieged place against an enemy.
- An excursion or side trip.
- A sudden rushing forth.
- (figuratively) A witty statement or quip, usually at the expense of one's interlocutor.
- a military action in which besieged troops burst forth from their position
- a venture off the beaten path
- witty remark
verb
noun
- slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
- a long needle with an eye large enough for heavy darning or embroidery thread
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: A needle used for darning.
- A damselfly, or a dragonfly that resembles one.
noun
- slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
- common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers
- A stick insect.
- Clematis virginiana, a vine native to the United States.
- A dragonfly.
- A cranefly.
noun
- slender-bodied non-stinging insect having iridescent wings that are outspread at rest; adults and nymphs feed on mosquitoes etc.
- mainly nocturnal North American goatsucker
- (US, regional) A dragonfly.
- (US, regional) A crane fly (US) / daddy longlegs (UK), a large, mosquito-like insect in the suborder Tipulomorpha
- (entomology) Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Micromidia, endemic to eastern Australia.
noun
- The larva of a mosquito.
- larva of a mosquito
- (physics) A magnet designed to make a beam of charged particles follow a curving path in an accelerator.
- (Southern US) An earthworm.
- (manufacturing) Any of several types of tool for center-finding or edge-finding in manufacturing, especially metalworking.
- terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- one who can't stay still (especially a child)
noun
noun
- Darmera peltata
- Cyperus alternifolius
- Diphylleia cymosa
- Heptapleurum arboricola
- Podophyllum peltatum
- Eriogonum longifolium var. harperi
- rhizomatous perennial herb with large dramatic peltate leaves and white to bright pink flowers in round heads on leafless stems; colonizes stream banks in the Sierra Nevada in California
- late blooming perennial plant of shale barrens of Virginia having flowers in flat-topped clusters
- African sedge widely cultivated as an ornamental water plant for its terminal umbrellalike cluster of slender grasslike leaves
noun
- Ellipsis of whirligig beetle.
- Anything that whirls or spins around, such as a toy top or a merry-go-round.
- (historical) A device for punishing prisoners, comprising a wooden cage that rapidly spins around to induce nausea.
- A device incorporating spinning, wind-driven propellers or pinwheels, used as whimsical outdoor decoration in a garden or on a porch.
- a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
- a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride on for amusement
verb
noun
noun
- A moth, Mythimna ferrago
- An earth material with ductile qualities.
- (Internet slang, humorous) Land or territory of a country or other political region, especially when subject to territorial claims.
- A clay pipe for smoking tobacco.
- (biblical) The material of the human body.
- (tennis) A tennis court surface made of crushed stone, brick, shale, or other unbound mineral aggregate.
- (geology) A particle less than 3.9 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale.
- (firearms, informal) A clay pigeon.
- A mineral substance made up of small crystals of silica and alumina, that is ductile when moist; the material of pre-fired ceramics.
- water soaked soil; soft wet earth
- the dead body of a human being
- a very fine-grained soil that is plastic when moist but hard when fired
verb
noun
- A scale insect.
- An ordered, usually numerical sequence used for measurement; means of assigning a magnitude.
- (uncountable) Limescale.
- Size; scope.
- (uncountable) The flaky material sloughed off heated metal.
- A device to measure mass or weight.
- (uncountable, US) An infestation of scale insects on a plant; commonly thought of as, or mistaken for, a disease.
- A standard amount of money to be paid for a service, for example union-negotiated amounts received by a performer or writer; similar to wage scale or pay grade.
- (music) A series of notes spanning an octave, tritave, or pseudo-octave, used to make melodies.
- Either of the pans, trays, or dishes of a balance or scales.
- Scale mail (as opposed to chain mail).
- A flake of skin of an animal afflicted with dermatitis.
- A mathematical base for a numeral system; radix.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard pieces of keratin covering the skin of an animal, particularly a fish or reptile.
- A small piece of pigmented chitin, many of which coat the wings of a butterfly or moth to give them their color.
- The thin metallic side plate of the handle of a pocketknife.
- A line or bar associated with a drawing, used to indicate measurement when the image has been magnified or reduced.
- The ratio of depicted distance to actual distance.
- Part of an overlapping arrangement of many small, flat and hard protective layers forming a pinecone that flare when mature to release pine nut seeds.
- Gradation; succession of ascending and descending steps and degrees; progressive series; scheme of comparative rank or order.
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- an indicator having a graduated sequence of marks
- an ordered reference standard
- a measuring instrument for weighing; shows amount of mass
- relative magnitude
- a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
- the ratio between the size of something and a representation of it
- a specialized leaf or bract that protects a bud or catkin
- a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
- (music) a series of notes differing in pitch according to a specific scheme (usually within an octave)
verb
- (transitive) To change the size of something whilst maintaining proportion; especially to change a process in order to produce much larger amounts of the final product.
- (transitive) To climb to the top of.
- (transitive) To take off in thin layers or scales, as tartar from the teeth; to pare off, as a surface.
- (transitive) To weigh, measure or grade according to a scale or system.
- (intransitive) To separate and come off in thin layers or laminae.
- (transitive) To remove the scales of.
- (intransitive) To become scaly; to produce or develop scales.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) To scatter; to spread.
- (transitive) To clean, as the inside of a cannon, by the explosion of a small quantity of powder.
- (manufacturing, transitive) To take measurements from (an engineering drawing), treating them as (or as if) reliable dimensional instructions. This practice often works but can produce latently incorrect results and is thus usually deprecated.
- (intransitive, computing) To tolerate significant increases in throughput or other potentially limiting factors.
- (transitive) To strip or clear of scale; to descale.
- measure by or as if by a scale
- climb up by means of a ladder
- take by attacking with scaling ladders
- reach the highest point of
- remove the scales from
- measure with or as if with scales
- pattern, make, regulate, set, measure, or estimate according to some rate or standard
- size or measure according to a scale
noun
- Penestola bufalis (black penestola moth)
- Biston betularia (peppered moth)
- Epicoma melanospila (black spot moth)
- Glacies coracina (black mountain moth)
- Celiptera frustulum (black bit moth)
- Langessa nomophilalis (black langessa moth)
- Arctornis l-nigrum (black V moth)
- Metalectra tantillus (black fungus moth)
- Hypena scabra (black snout moth)
- Parascotia fuliginaria (waved black moth)
- Panthea acronyctoides (black zigzag moth)
- Idia lubricalis (glossy black idia moth)
- Zale undularis (black zale moth)
- Ascalapha odorata (black witch moth)
- Trichodezia albovittata (white-striped black moth)
- Siona lineata (black-veined moth)
noun
- Any insect.
- (television) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
- Any of various species of marine (saltwater or freshwater) crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
- (gambling, slang) A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
- Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
- (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
- A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device
- (informal) Any minibeast.
- (entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
- A semi-automated telegraph key.
- (chiefly computing, engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing.
- (informal) An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
- A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
- (Maine) A lobster.
- (gambling, slang) A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
- (poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
- (paleontology, slang) A trilobite.
- (slang, US, horse-racing) An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
- (printing) Synonym of union bug.
- (informal) A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
- (slang, US, horse-racing, by extension) A young apprentice jockey.
- (informal) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
- A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
- (chiefly LGBTQ, "the bug") HIV.
- insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
- general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
- a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
- a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
- a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
verb
- (transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
- (intransitive, of eyes) To bulge or protrude.
- (informal, transitive) To annoy.
- (informal, intransitive) To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
- (transitive) To represent (a value) using a bug on an instrument.
- tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
- annoy persistently
noun
noun
verb
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adj
- Covered with the eggs and larvae of flies; flyblown.
- Distended, swollen, or inflated.
- (automotive) Given a hot rod blower.
- Panting and out of breath.
- Under the influence of drugs, especially marijuana.
- Having failed.
- (of glass) Formed by blowing.
- being moved or acted upon by moving air or vapor
- breathing laboriously or convulsively