Definition of Squash. Meaning of Squash. Synonyms of Squash

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Definition of Squash

Squash
Squash Squash, n. A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets.
Squash
Squash Squash, n. [Cf. Musquash.] (Zo["o]l.) An American animal allied to the weasel. [Obs.] --Goldsmith.
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Squash Squash, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw, green, immaturate, applied to fruit and vegetables which were used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine apple.] (Bot.) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China squash, C. moschata, and the great winter squash, C. maxima, but the distinctions are not clear. Squash beetle (Zo["o]l.), a small American beetle (Diabrotica, or Galeruca vittata) which is often abundant and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc. It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied also to other allied species. Squash bug (Zo["o]l.), a large black American hemipterous insect (Coreus, or Anasa, tristis) injurious to squash vines.

Meaning of Squash from wikipedia

- Look up squash in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Squash most often refers to: Squash (sport), the high-speed racquet sport also known as squash racquets...
- Squash, sometimes called squash rackets, is a racket sport pla**** by two (singles) or four players (doubles) in a four-walled court with a small, hollow...
- Butternut squash (Cucurbita moschata), known in Australia and New Zealand as butternut pumpkin or gramma, is a type of winter squash that grows on a vine...
- pattypan squash is also known as scallop squash, granny squash, custard squash, ciblème in Cajun French, button squash, scallopini, or simply "squash" in Australian...
- Squash (sometimes known as cordial in British English, dilute in Hiberno English, diluting juice in Scottish English, and water juice in the Northern Isles...
- Winter squash is an annual fruit representing several squash species within the genus Cucurbita. Late-growing, less symmetrical, odd-shaped, rough or...
- カボチャ, 南瓜) is a type of winter squash, a ****anese variety of the species Cucurbita maxima. It is also called kabocha squash or ****anese pumpkin in North...
- Summer squash are squashes that are harvested when immature, while the rind is still tender and edible. Most summer squashes are varieties of Cucurbita...
- zucchinis), courgette (/kʊərˈʒɛt/) or baby marrow (Cucurbita pepo) is a summer squash, a vining herbaceous plant whose fruit are harvested when their immature...
- agricultural crops of various indigenous people of Central and North America: squash, maize ("corn"), and climbing beans (typically tepary beans or common beans)...