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Squash beetle
(gcide) | 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.
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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.
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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.
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