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