Crescentia Cujete (Noun)
Meaning
Tropical American evergreen that produces large round gourds.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Crescentia cujete is a tropical American evergreen tree known for producing large round gourds used as a calabaza or a vessel.
- In the tropics, Crescentia cujete grows wild, bearing gourds of various sizes and shapes, mainly used as water containers.
- This evergreen tree is known by its common name, calabaza, or Crescentia cujete, for the production of the gourd, often employed in musical instruments.
- Tropical America's Crescentia cujete produces fruit with an outer skin of green color and inner cavity which turns to pulp once it is fully matured.
- Calabaza tree, scientifically known as Crescentia cujete, yields fruits resembling an ornamental or vegetable, edible as a cooked green gourd or young shoots in stews.