单词 | gem squash |
释义 | > as lemmasgem squash gem squash n. any of several varieties of squash, Cucurbita pepo, bearing small, usually round fruit; spec. (more fully little gem squash) one with orange flesh and a dark green skin ripening to orange, grown esp. in South Africa. ΚΠ 1883 Trans. Mass. Hort. Soc. 1882 ii. 169 The Little Gem squash is valuable for amateurs, but the color is too pale for pies, and it is too small for market. 1889 Trans. Calif. State Agric. Soc. 1888 105 Perfect gem squash. 1958 Bot. Surv. Mem. No. 30 38 The fruits are a little over a pound in weight and four inches in diameter, the size and shape of a gem squash, with the same type of hard rind. 2005 R. Zadok Gem Squash Tokoloshe ii. iv. 194 At the back of the shop I find wire baskets of vegetables,..a few spongy carrots and three hard, dark green gem squash. < as lemmas |
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