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What's The Definition Of Squash?
[n] a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets
[n] edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable [n] any of numerous annual tendril-bearing trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits [v] to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition; "crush an aluminum can"; "squeeze a lemon" Synonyms | Synonyms for Squash: crush | mash | squash rackets | squash racquets | squash vine | squeeze | squelch Related Terms | Find terms related to Squash: See Also | autumn pumpkin | court game | Cucurbita | Cucurbita pepo | Cucurbita pepo melopepo | exchange | genus Cucurbita | press | pumpkin | pumpkin vine | rally | squash | squash | squash vine | stamp | steamroller | summer squash | summer squash | summer squash vine | telescope | tread | vegetable | veggie | vine | winter squash | winter squash | winter squash plant | wring Squash In Webster's Dictionary \Squash\, n.
A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft
rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets.
\Squash\, n. [Cf. {Musquash}.] (Zo["o]l.) An American animal allied to the weasel. [Obs.] --Goldsmith. \Squash\, n. [Massachusetts Indian asq, pl. asquash, raw, green, immaturate, 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. 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. {Squash beetle} (Zo["o]l.), a small American beetle ({Diabrotica, or 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, or Anasa, tristis}) injurious to squash vines. \Squash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Squashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Squashing}.] [OE. squashen, OF. escachier, esquachier, to squash, to crush, F. ['e]cacher, perhaps from (assumed) LL. excoacticare, fr. L. ex + coactare to constrain, from cogere, coactum, to compel. Cf. {Cogent}, {Squat}, v. i.] To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush. \Squash\, n. 1. Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease. Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. --Shak. 2. Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt. ``This squash, this gentleman.'' --Shak. 3. A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies. --Arbuthnot. My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. --Swift. |
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