单词 | squash vine |
释义 | squash vine (once / 454589 pages) n WORD FAMILY squash vine: squash vines USAGE EXAMPLESThe Red Kuri squash looks all right on the cages, but some of the vines appear wilted by the squash vine borer. Washington Post(Sep 13, 2016) His summer squash vines look as though they belong in the jungle rather than the shale soil of Coal Bank Hollow. Washington Times(Aug 21, 2016) It lifted the hair off my face and rattled the squash vines. Laurie Halse Anderson, Fever 1793(2000) n any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits Syn|Hypo|Hyper squash 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 vineany of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden winter squash, winter squash plantany of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall yellow squashany of various squash plants grown for their yellow fruits with somewhat elongated necks marrow, marrow squash, vegetable marrowany of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh cymling, pattypan squashsquash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white spaghetti squashsquash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti acorn squashsquash plant bearing small acorn-shaped fruits having yellow flesh and dark green or yellow rind with longitudinal ridges Cucurbita maxima, hubbard squashany of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis, turban squashsquash 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 squashplant 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 squashany of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks Cucurbita argyrosperma, Cucurbita mixta, cushawplant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds vine a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface |
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