BUTTERNUT SQUASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does butternut squash mean? 

• BUTTERNUT SQUASH (noun)
  The noun BUTTERNUT SQUASH has 2 senses:

1. plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind

2. buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh

  Familiarity information: BUTTERNUT SQUASH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUTTERNUT SQUASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

butternut squash; Cucurbita maxima

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

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)

Meronyms (parts of "butternut squash"):

butternut squash (buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Buff-colored squash with a long usually straight neck and sweet orange flesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

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)

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

butternut squash; Cucurbita maxima (plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind)