English > winter squash plant: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of various plants of the species Cucurbita ... / Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall. |
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| Synonym | winter squash |
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| Member of | Cucurbita, genus Cucurbita | type genus of the Cucurbitaceae |
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| Parts | 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 |
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| Narrower | 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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| butternut squash, Cucurbita maxima | plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind |
| cushaw, Cucurbita mixta, Cucurbita argyrosperma | plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds |
| hubbard squash, Cucurbita maxima | Any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind |
| turban squash, Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis | squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem |
| winter crookneck, winter crookneck squash, Cucurbita moschata | Any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks |
| Broader | squash, squash vine | Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits |
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| Spanish | calabaza de invierno |
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