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winter squash plant

DEFINITIONS OF: winter squash plant

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n any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall

Synonyms:
winter squash
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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
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
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