| NOUN | plant | squash, squash vine | any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits |
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| food | squash | edible fruit of a squash plant | |
| act | squash, squash racquets, squash rackets | a game / game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets | |
| VERB | contact | squash, crush, squelch, mash, squeeze | to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition |
| Sounds | skwaa'sh | |
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| Rhymes | awash ... whitewash: 18 rhymes with aash... | |
| Meaning | Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits. | |
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| Synonym | squash vine | |
| Member of | Cucurbita, genus Cucurbita | type genus of the Cucurbitaceae |
| Parts | squash | edible fruit of a squash plant |
| Narrower | pumpkin, pumpkin vine, autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo | A coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds |
| summer squash, summer squash vine, Cucurbita pepo melopepo | 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 ... / Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall | |
| Broader | vine | A plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface |
| Meaning | edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable. | |
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| Part of | squash, squash vine | Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits |
| Narrower | summer squash | Any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer |
| winter squash | Any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months | |
| Broader | vegetable, veggie, veg | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant |
| Spanish | calabaza | |
| Catalan | carabassa, carbassa | |
| Meaning | A game / game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets. | |
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| Synonyms | squash racquets, squash rackets | |
| Category of | cut, undercut | (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball |
| drive | (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash) | |
| fault | (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area) | |
| forehand, forehand stroke, forehand shot | (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash) | |
| forehand drive | (sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash) | |
| rally, exchange | (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes | |
| serve, service | (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play | |
| Broader | court game | An athletic game played on a court |
| Spanish | squash | |
| Catalan | esquaix | |
| Meaning | To compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | crush, squelch, mash, squeeze | |
| Narrower | stamp | crush or grind with a heavy instrument |
| steamroller | crush with a steamroller as if to level | |
| telescope | crush together or collapse | |
| tread | crush as if by treading on | |
| wring | Twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid | |
| Broader | press | Exert pressure or force to or upon |
| Spanish | aplastar, chafar, chapotear, estrujar, machacar, majar, moler | |
| Catalan | aclaparar, aixafar, esclafar, esprémer, moldre, xafar | |
| Participle | squashed | that has been violently compressed |
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