Cucurbita maxima

Cucurbita maxima
    n 1: plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-
         shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth
         thin rind [syn: {butternut squash}, {Cucurbita maxima}]
    2: any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-
       green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind [syn:
       {hubbard squash}, {Cucurbita maxima}]
    

Squash \Squash\, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw,
   green, immature, 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.
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   Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is
         called {Cucurbita verrucosa}, the Barbary or China
         squash, {Cucurbita moschata}, and the great winter
         squash, {Cucurbita maxima}, but the distinctions are
         not clear.
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   {Squash beetle} (Zool.), a small American beetle ({Diabrotica
      vittata}, syn. {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} (Zool.), a large black American hemipterous
      insect ({Coreus tristis} syn. {Anasa tristis}) injurious
      to squash vines.
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