Thesaurus: squash

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1. n. An American animal allied to the weasel.
2. n. A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
3. v. i. To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
4. n. Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.
5. n. Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
6. n. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
7. n. any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
8. n. edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable
9. n. a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
10. v. to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition
11. An American animal allied to the weasel. [Obs.] Goldsmith. A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind. Note: The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China squash, C. moschata, and the great winter squash, C. maxima, but the distinctions are not clear. Squash beetle (Zoöl.), a small American beetle (Diabrotica, or Galeruca vittata) which is often abundant and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc. It is striped with yellow and black. The name is applied also to other allied species. -- Squash bug (Zoöl.), a large black American hemipterous insect (Coreus, or Anasa, tristis) injurious to squash vines. To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush. 1. Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease. Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. Shak. 2. Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt. "This squash, this gentleman." Shak. 3. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies. Arbuthnot. My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. Swift.
12. An American animal allied to the weasel. [Obs.] Goldsmith.