WINTER SQUASH PLANT
Dictionary entry overview: What does winter squash plant mean?
• WINTER SQUASH PLANT (noun)
The noun WINTER SQUASH PLANT has 1 sense:
1. any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
Familiarity information: WINTER SQUASH PLANT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WINTER SQUASH PLANT (noun)
Meaning:
Any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
winter squash; winter squash plant
Hypernyms ("winter squash plant" 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 "winter squash plant"):
winter squash (any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "winter squash plant"):
acorn squash (squash plant bearing small acorn-shaped fruits having yellow flesh and dark green or yellow rind with longitudinal ridges)
Cucurbita maxima; hubbard squash (any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind)
Cucurbita maxima turbaniformis; turban squash (squash plants bearing hard-shelled fruit shaped somewhat like a turban with a rounded central portion protruding from the end opposite the stem)
butternut squash; Cucurbita maxima (plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind)
Cucurbita moschata; winter crookneck; winter crookneck squash (any of various plants bearing squash having hard rinds and elongated recurved necks)
Cucurbita argyrosperma; Cucurbita mixta; cushaw (plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds)
Holonyms ("winter squash plant" is a member of...):
Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)
