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SUMMER SQUASH VINE

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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

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("summer squash vine" 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 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)

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

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 vine" is a member of...):

Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)

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