CUSHAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cushaw mean? 

• CUSHAW (noun)
  The noun CUSHAW has 2 senses:

1. plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds

2. globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind

  Familiarity information: CUSHAW used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUSHAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cucurbita argyrosperma; Cucurbita mixta; cushaw

Hypernyms ("cushaw" 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 "cushaw"):

cushaw (globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind)

Holonyms ("cushaw" is a part of...):

Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("cushaw" 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 ("cushaw" is a part of...):

Cucurbita argyrosperma; Cucurbita mixta; cushaw (plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds)