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Cucurbita pepo, autumn pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin vine
a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
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Cucurbita pepo melopepo, summer squash, summer squash vine
any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden
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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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yellow squash
any of various squash plants grown for their yellow fruits with somewhat elongated necks
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marrow, marrow squash, vegetable marrow
any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh
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cymling, pattypan squash
squash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white
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spaghetti squash
squash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti
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acorn squash
squash plant bearing small acorn-shaped fruits having yellow flesh and dark green or yellow rind with longitudinal ridges
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Cucurbita maxima, hubbard squash
any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind
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Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis, turban squash
squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem
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Cucurbita maxima, butternut squash
plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
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Cucurbita moschata, winter crookneck, winter crookneck squash
any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks
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Cucurbita argyrosperma, Cucurbita mixta, cushaw
plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds