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Cucurbita maxima

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: Cucurbita maxima

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n
plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
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n
any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: Cucurbita maxima
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n plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind

Synonyms:
butternut squash
Type of:
winter squash, winter squash plant
any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
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n any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind

Synonyms:
hubbard squash
Type of:
winter squash, winter squash plant
any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
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