squash : Idioms & Phrases

• noun squash plant bearing small acorn-shaped fruits having yellow flesh and dark green or yellow rind with longitudinal ridges
  
• noun small dark green or yellow ribbed squash with yellow to orange flesh
  

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• noun plant bearing somewhat drum-shaped fruit having dark green rind with greyish markings
  
• noun drum-shaped squash with dark green rind marked in silver or grey
  

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• noun plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
  Cucurbita maxima.
  
• noun buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh
  

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• noun yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin
  summer crookneck; crookneck.
  

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1. A variety of squash with small egg-shaped fruit.

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• noun any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind
  Cucurbita maxima.
  
• noun large football-shaped winter squash with a warty grey-green rind
  

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• noun any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh
  vegetable marrow; marrow.
  

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• (Bot.), a name given to several varieties of squash, esp. to the Boston marrow, an ovoid fruit, pointed at both ends, and with reddish yellow flesh, and to the vegetable marrow, a variety of an ovoid form, and having a soft texture and fine grain resembling marrow.

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• noun squash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white
  cymling.
  
• noun round greenish-white squash having one face flattened with a scalloped edge
  

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• noun squash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti
  
• noun medium-sized oval squash with flesh in the form of strings that resemble spaghetti
  

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• noun rubber ball used in playing squash
  

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• (Zoöl.), a small American beetle (Diabrotica, ∨ 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.

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• noun large black American bug that sucks sap of vines of the gourd family
  Anasa tristis.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a large black American hemipterous insect (Coreus, ∨ Anasa, tristis) injurious to squash vines.

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• noun the indoor court in which squash is played
  

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• noun similar to pumpkin pie but made with winter squash instead of pumpkin
  

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• noun a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
  bat; squash racket; squash racquet.
  

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• noun a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
  squash; squash rackets.
  
• noun a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
  bat; squash racket; squash racquet.
  

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• noun a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
  bat; squash racket; squash racquet.
  

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• noun a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
  squash; squash rackets.
  
• noun a small racket with a long handle used for playing squash
  bat; squash racket; squash racquet.
  

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• noun any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
  squash.
  

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• noun any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden
  summer squash; Cucurbita pepo melopepo.
  
• noun any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden
  

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• noun any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden
  summer squash; Cucurbita pepo melopepo.
  

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• noun squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem
  Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis.
  
• noun large squash shaped somewhat like a turban usually with a rounded central portion protruding from the blossom end
  

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• noun any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks
  Cucurbita moschata; winter crookneck.
  
• noun a squash with a hard rind and an elongated curved neck
  

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• noun any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
  winter squash.
  
• noun 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
  

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• noun any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
  winter squash.
  

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• noun any of various squash plants grown for their yellow fruits with somewhat elongated necks
  
• noun squash having yellow skin and yellowish flesh and usually elongated neck
  

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