HUBBARD SQUASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hubbard squash mean? 

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

1. any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind

2. large football-shaped winter squash with a warty grey-green rind

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUBBARD SQUASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cucurbita maxima; hubbard squash

Hypernyms ("hubbard 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 "hubbard squash"):

hubbard squash (large football-shaped winter squash with a warty grey-green rind)

Holonyms ("hubbard squash" is a member of...):

Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large football-shaped winter squash with a warty grey-green rind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("hubbard 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 ("hubbard squash" is a part of...):

Cucurbita maxima; hubbard squash (any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind)