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SPAGHETTI SQUASH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does spaghetti squash mean?
• SPAGHETTI SQUASH (noun)
The noun SPAGHETTI SQUASH has 2 senses:
1. squash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti
2. medium-sized oval squash with flesh in the form of strings that resemble spaghetti
Familiarity information: SPAGHETTI SQUASH used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Squash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("spaghetti squash" is a kind of...):
Cucurbita pepo melopepo; summer squash; summer squash vine (any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden)
Meronyms (parts of "spaghetti squash"):
spaghetti squash (medium-sized oval squash with flesh in the form of strings that resemble spaghetti)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Medium-sized oval squash with flesh in the form of strings that resemble spaghetti
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("spaghetti squash" is a kind of...):
summer squash (any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden)
Holonyms ("spaghetti squash" is a part of...):
spaghetti squash (squash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti)
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