Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cucurbita_maxima

2 senses of cucurbita maxima

Sense 1
butternut squash, Cucurbita maxima -- (plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind)
       => winter squash, winter squash plant -- (any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall)

Sense 2
hubbard squash, Cucurbita maxima -- (any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind)
       => winter squash, winter squash plant -- (any of various plants of the species Cucurbita maxima and Cucurbita moschata producing squashes that have hard rinds and mature in the fall)