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Definition: C moschata
Squash
\Squash\, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw,
green, immature, applied to fruit and vegetables which were
used when green, or without cooking; askutasquash vine
apple.] (Bot.)
A plant and its fruit of the genus
Cucurbita, or gourd
kind.
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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.
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Squash beetle (Zo["o]l.), a small American beetle
(
Diabrotica vittata, syn.
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 (Zo["o]l.), a large black American hemipterous
insect (
Coreus tristis syn.
Anasa tristis) injurious
to squash vines.
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