squash

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I suppose the squash is a bit more useful, when we think of the fine Hubbard, and the nice little crooked-necked summer squashes; but after all, I like to have more pumpkins.

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  1. noun Any of various tendril-bearing plants of the genus Cucurbita, having fleshy edible fruit with a leathery rind and unisexual flowers.
  2. noun The fruit of any of these plants, eaten as a vegetable.
  3. transitive verb To beat, squeeze, or press into a pulp or a flattened mass; crush. See Synonyms at crush.
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  • Products -- squash, vanilla beans, root crops, fish, other marine products.
  • It really brings more to mind than the word squash. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • Robinsons have launched their first squash, which is made entirely from naturally sourced ingredients. —  Entertainment - Female First
  • Grilled zucchini, squash, and a triplet of cheerful, still-on-the-vine cherry tomatoes helped to create a lovely presentation. —  Chinalyst - China blogs in English
  • The sweet taste of the squash is enhanced by the richness of the tomato sauce and the tartness of the yogurt.
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cauliflower ·  spinach ·  cucumber ·  turnip ·  tomato ·  pumpkin ·  eggplant ·  mushroom ·  melon ·  beet ·  sprout ·  strawberry

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squash:   squashed ·  squashing
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  1. From alteration of Narragansett askútasquash.
  2. Middle English squachen, from Old French esquasser, from Vulgar Latin *exquassāre : Latin ex-, intensive pref.; see ex- + Latin quassāre, to shatter, frequentative of quatere, to shake; see kwēt- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. An altered form, conformed to the related quash, of what would prop, be *squatch, from Middle English squacchen, squachen, swacchen, from Old French esquachier, escachier, escacier, esquacher, escacher, French écacher, crush; cf. Spanish acachar, agachar = Portuguese agachar, acaçapar, reflexive, squat, cower; from Latin ex-, out (or in Spanish Portuguese a-, from Latin ad-, to), + coactare (Middle Latin *coactiare), constrain, force, freq. of cogere (past participle coactus), constrain, force: see cogent. Cf. quash and see squat, quat.
  2. from squash, v.
  3. An abbreviation of squantersquash, squonter-squash, from American Indian askutasquash; asquash, plural of asq, raw, green.
  4. Abbr. of musquash (like coon from racoon, or possum from opossum).
 

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