1. Any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind
   "Cucurbita maxima stored well in the root cellar";
   - hubbard squash
    
2. Plant bearing buff-coloured squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind
   "Cucurbita maxima vines climbed up the garden trellis";
   - butternut squash

Type of: winter squash, winter squash plant

Part of: Cucurbita, genus Cucurbita

Encyclopedia: Cucurbita maxima