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cushaw

 
Dictionary: cu·shaw
(kə-shô', kū'shô') pronunciation
n.
Any of several kinds of winter squash (Cucurbita mixta) having a curved neck.

[Origin unknown.]


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[kuh-SHAW; KOO-shaw] Any of several types of crookneck squash, popular in cajun and creole cooking. See also squash.

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The noun has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped gray and green and white warty rinds
  Synonyms: Cucurbita mixta, Cucurbita argyrosperma

Meaning #2: globose or ovoid squash with striped gray and green warty rind


 
 

 

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