squash vine
Noun
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Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits (synset 112179315)
is a type of: vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surfacesubtypes:
- autumn pumpkin, cucurbita pepo, pumpkin, pumpkin vine - a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes
- 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
- winter squash, winter squash plant - any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall
belongs to: cucurbita, genus cucurbita - type genus of the Cucurbitaceaehas: squash - edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetablesame as: squash
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