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SQUASH VINE

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Meaning:

Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits

Synonyms:

squash; squash vine

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("squash vine" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Meronyms (parts of "squash vine"):

squash (edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "squash vine"):

autumn pumpkin; Cucurbita pepo; 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 vine (any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden)

winter squash; winter squash plant (any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall)

Holonyms ("squash vine" is a member of...):

Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)

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