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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
Cucurbita maxima n 1: plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle- shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind [syn: butternut squash, Cucurbita maxima] 2: any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish- green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind [syn: hubbard squash, Cucurbita maxima] | ||
2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Squash \Squash\, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw, green, immature, applied to fruit and vegetables which were used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine apple.] (Bot.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. [1913 Webster] Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China squash, Cucurbita moschata, and the great winter squash, Cucurbita maxima, but the distinctions are not clear. [1913 Webster] Squash beetle (Zool.), a small American beetle (Diabrotica vittata, syn. Galeruca vittata) which is often abundant and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc. It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied also to other allied species. Squash bug (Zool.), a large black American hemipterous insect (Coreus tristis syn. Anasa tristis) injurious to squash vines. [1913 Webster] | ||
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