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SUMMER SQUASH VINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does summer squash vine mean?
• SUMMER SQUASH VINE (noun)
The noun SUMMER SQUASH VINE has 1 sense:
1. any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden
Familiarity information: SUMMER SQUASH VINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 vine" 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 vine"):
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 vine"):
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 vine" is a member of...):
Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)
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