SUMMER SQUASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does summer squash mean? 

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

1. any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden

2. any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUMMER SQUASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cucurbita pepo melopepo; summer squash; summer squash vine

Hypernyms ("summer squash" 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 "summer squash"):

summer squash (any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "summer squash"):

yellow squash (any of various squash plants grown for their yellow fruits with somewhat elongated necks)

marrow; marrow squash; vegetable marrow (any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh)

cymling; pattypan squash (squash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white)

spaghetti squash (squash plant bearing oval fruit with smooth yellowish skin and tender stranded flesh resembling spaghetti)

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

Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

squash (edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "summer squash"):

yellow squash (squash having yellow skin and yellowish flesh and usually elongated neck)

courgette; zucchini (small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green)

marrow; vegetable marrow (large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins)

cocozelle (squash resembling zucchini)

pattypan squash (round greenish-white squash having one face flattened with a scalloped edge)

spaghetti squash (medium-sized oval squash with flesh in the form of strings that resemble spaghetti)

Holonyms ("summer squash" is a part 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)