squash vine

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squash vine - any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruitssquashsquash - edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetableCucurbita, genus Cucurbita - type genus of the Cucurbitaceaeautumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo, 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 squashesCucurbita 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 hardenwinter 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 fallvine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface