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 Squash, n.  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, Cucurbita moschata, and the great winter squash, Cucurbita maxima, but the distinctions are not clear.
 Squash beetle Zool., a small American beetle (Diabrotica vittata, syn. 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 Zool., a large black American hemipterous insect (Coreus tristis syn. Anasa tristis) injurious to squash vines.

 Cucurbita maxima
      n 1: plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat
           bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and
           smooth thin rind [syn: butternut squash]
      2: any of several winter squash plants producing large
         grayish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty
         rind [syn: hubbard squash]