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Hubbard squash   /hˈəbərd skwɑʃ/   Listen
Hubbard squash

noun
1.
Any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind.  Synonym: Cucurbita maxima.
2.
Large football-shaped winter squash with a warty grey-green rind.





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"Hubbard squash" Quotes from Famous Books



... and had more latent buds than I had believed possible. Every time the woodchuck cut them back they started something in a new place for his incisive pruning shears. Some people trim evergreens on their lawns into grotesque shapes. My woodchuck invented that sort of thing all over again on Hubbard squash vines. After some weeks I had a new and strange race of decorative plants that, like Katisha's left elbow, people came miles to see. But they did ...
— Old Plymouth Trails • Winthrop Packard


Words linked to "Hubbard squash" :   winter squash, genus Cucurbita, winter squash plant, Cucurbita


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