summer squash

summer squash

n.

Any of several varieties of squash (Cucurbita pepo), such as the crookneck or zucchini, that are eaten before they ripen and develop a hard rind.

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sum′mer squash′

n.

any of several squashes of the variety Cucurbita pepo melopepo that mature in the late summer or early autumn: used as a vegetable in its unripe state.

[1745–55]

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Noun	1.	summer squash - any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden Cucurbita pepo melopepo, summer squash vine summer squash - any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden Cucurbita, genus Cucurbita - type genus of the Cucurbitaceae squash, squash vine - any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits yellow squash - any of various squash plants grown for their yellow fruits with somewhat elongated necks marrow squash, vegetable marrow, marrow - any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh cymling, pattypan squash - squash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white spaghetti squash - squash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti
	2.	summer squash - any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden squash - edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable yellow squash - squash having yellow skin and yellowish flesh and usually elongated neck courgette, zucchini - small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green vegetable marrow, marrow - large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins cocozelle - squash resembling zucchini pattypan squash - round greenish-white squash having one face flattened with a scalloped edge spaghetti squash - medium-sized oval squash with flesh in the form of strings that resemble spaghetti Cucurbita 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 harden

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