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GOURD FAMILY [7 records]

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Record 1 2016-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vegetable Crop Production
  • Fruits and Vegetables (Types and Processing - Food Ind.)
  • Botany
Universal entry(ies)
Luffa
Latin
DEF

A genus of the order Cucurbitaceae, the gourd family, characterized by large fruits, which are dry and fibrous. The fruit is dry and oblong or cylindrical in shape and dried for use as a bath sponge.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production légumière
  • Fruits et légumes (Types et traitement - Alimentation)
  • Botanique
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Luffa
Latin
CONT

Les Luffa, également très rustiques, ne peuvent être consommés qu'à l'état très jeune (fruits de moins de 10 cm). Ensuite le réseau de fibres qui constitue l'éponge végétale de Luffa cylindrica Roem, mais qui apparaît aussi dans les fruits à section étoilée de L. acutangula Rexb. les rend impropres à la consommation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Producción hortícola
  • Frutas y verduras (Tipos y procesamiento - Ind. alimentaria)
  • Botánica
Entrada(s) universal(es)
Luffa
Latin
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Record 2 2015-04-20

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fruits and Vegetables (Types and Processing - Food Ind.)
DEF

The fruit of an annual [creeping] plant of the gourd family, which is generally eaten raw but is also good cooked.

OBS

It is long and cylindrical in shape, with firm, watery, pale green flesh, which is crisp, cool and slightly bitter to the taste; its fine green skin is shiny and usually smooth.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fruits et légumes (Types et traitement - Alimentation)
DEF

Fruit d'une plante annuelle rampante de la famille des cucurbitacées, qui se mange salé, cru ou cuit.

CONT

Charnu, bien ferme, allongé et cylindrique, le concombre possède une chair vert pâle, croquante et fraîche, légèrement amère, sous une fine peau plus ou moins verte, brillante, lisse ou épineuse.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Frutas y verduras (Tipos y procesamiento - Ind. alimentaria)
DEF

[...] fruto pulposo, cilíndrico, de seis a doce centímetros de largo y dos a cinco de grueso, amarillo cuando está maduro, y antes verde más o menos claro por la parte exterior, interiormente blanco y con multitud de semillas ovaladas y puntiagudas por uno de sus extremos, chatas y pequeñas, [...] comestible.

OBS

[Fruto del pepino,] planta herbácea anual, de la familia de las Cucurbitáceas.

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Record 3 2010-11-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Seed Plants (Spermatophyta)
Universal entry(ies)
Cucumis anguria
Latin
CONT

A true gherkin has three-lobed leaves with toothed edges, small flowers, and furrowed, prickly fruits about five centimetres long that are borne on crooked stalks.

OBS

A trailing vine, of the gourd family(Cucurbitaceae), grown for its edible fruit.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Plantes à graines (Spermatophyta)
Entrée(s) universelle(s)
Cucumis anguria
Latin
OBS

Plante de la famille des Cucurbitaceae.

OBS

Concombre à petits fruits ovoïdes, épineux.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Plantas con semilla (Spermatophyta)
Entrada(s) universal(es)
Cucumis anguria
Latin
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Record 4 2008-03-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fruits and Vegetables (Types and Processing - Food Ind.)
  • Root and Tuber Crops
DEF

The fleshy fruit of any of various plants(genus Cucurbita) of the gourd family, eaten as a vegetable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fruits et légumes (Types et traitement - Alimentation)
  • Culture des plantes sarclées
DEF

Plante potagère (Cucurbitacées), cultivée pour ses fruits généralement comestibles [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Frutas y verduras (Tipos y procesamiento - Ind. alimentaria)
  • Cultivo de raíces y tubérculos
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Record 5 2008-01-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fruits and Vegetables (Types and Processing - Food Ind.)
DEF

Any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fruits et légumes (Types et traitement - Alimentation)
CONT

La courge d'été se cueille avant sa maturité, soit de deux à sept jours après la période de floraison. Cela explique pourquoi sa pelure est tendre, délicate et comestible. Sa chair - de couleur blanche - se mange avec la pelure, tant bien cuite que crue.

Spanish

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Record 6 1995-08-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Horticulture
OBS

This large gourd is a native of Java.... The fruits are covered with fine white silky hairs when young and are waxy white when mature.

OBS

Melon is used to describe the family(gourd family)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Horticulture
OBS

Courge orientale. Bien qu'on les appelle melons, ce sont plus spécifiquement des variétés de courges (cucurbitacées) originaires des régions tropicales du Sud-Est asiatique.

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-07-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Fruits and Vegetables (Types and Processing - Food Ind.)
DEF

An indehiscent fleshy 1-celled or falsely 3-celled many seeded berry(as a pumpkin, squash, melon, or cucumber) that has a hard rind and is the characteristic fruit of the gourd family.

CONT

The fruit of the Cucurbitaceae(gourd family) is a berry(referred to as a pepo) with a leathery or hard exocarp.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Fruits et légumes (Types et traitement - Alimentation)
DEF

Fruits-à-pépins, charnus (dont la paroi s'épaissit, devient juteuse et molle à maturité), ne s'ouvrant pas, ce sont les baies (citrouille et autres Cucurbitacées)

CONT

Les fruits des Cucurbitacées, lisses ou galeux, aux formes inattendues et aux coloris variés de vert, jaune, orange, commencent à se former au début de l'automne.

Spanish

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