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Squash

squash
(Science: zoology) An American animal allied to the weasel.
Origin: Cf. Musquash.
(Science: botany) A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
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, a large black American hemipterous insect (Coreus, or Anasa, tristis) injurious to squash vines.
Origin: Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. Asquash, raw, green, immaturate, applied to fruit and vegetables which were used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine apple.

Last updated on January 18th, 2021

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