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SUMMER SQUASH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

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

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

yellow squash (squash having yellow skin and yellowish flesh and usually elongated neck)

courgette; zucchini (small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green)

marrow; vegetable 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)

Holonyms ("summer squash" is a part of...):

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden

Synonyms:

Cucurbita pepo melopepo; summer squash; summer squash vine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

squash; squash vine (any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits)

Meronyms (parts of "summer squash"):

summer squash (any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden)

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

yellow squash (any of various squash plants grown for their yellow fruits with somewhat elongated necks)

marrow; marrow squash; vegetable 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)

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

Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)

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