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Noun: Cucurbita maxima
  1. Plant bearing buff-coloured squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
    - butternut squash
     
  2. Any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind
    - hubbard squash

Type of: winter squash, winter squash plant

Part of: Cucurbita, genus Cucurbita

Encyclopedia: Cucurbita maxima

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