squash vine

Other forms: squash vines

Definitions of squash vine

1. noun

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

   types:

   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

   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

   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

   yellow squash

   any of various squash plants grown for their yellow fruits with somewhat elongated necks

   marrow, marrow squash, vegetable marrow

   any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh

   cymling, pattypan squash

   squash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white

   spaghetti squash

   squash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti

   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

   type of:

   vine

   a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface