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Cucurbita maxima
(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.
[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] |
cucurbita maxima
(wn) | 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] |
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Cucurbita maxima
(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.
[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] |
cucurbita maxima turbaniformis
(wn) | Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis
n 1: squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat
like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding
from the end opposite the stem [syn: turban squash,
Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis] |
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