winter squash

DEFINITIONS OF: winter squash

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; acorn squash
squash plant bearing small acorn-shaped fruits having yellow flesh and dark green or yellow rind with longitudinal ridges; Cucurbita maxima, hubbard squash
any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind; 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; Cucurbita maxima, butternut squash
plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind; Cucurbita moschata, winter crookneck, winter crookneck squash
any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks; Cucurbita argyrosperma, Cucurbita mixta, cushaw
plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds; buttercup squash
plant bearing somewhat drum-shaped fruit having dark green rind with greyish markings

Type of:: squash, squash vine
any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; acorn squash
small dark green or yellow ribbed squash with yellow to orange flesh; butternut squash
buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh; hubbard squash
large football-shaped winter squash with a warty grey-green rind; turban squash
large squash shaped somewhat like a turban usually with a rounded central portion protruding from the blossom end; cushaw
globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind; winter crookneck squash
a squash with a hard rind and an elongated curved neck; buttercup squash
drum-shaped squash with dark green rind marked in silver or grey

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