squash - edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable

Cucurbita, genus Cucurbita - type genus of the Cucurbitaceae

autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo, pumpkin, pumpkin vine - a coarse vine widely cultivated for its non-keeping large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes

Cucurbita pepo melopepo, summer squash, summer squash vine - any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden

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

vine - weak-stemmed plant that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

summer squash - any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden

winter squash - any of various fruits of the gourd family with thick rinds and edible yellow to orange flesh that mature in the fall and can be stored for several months

squash, squash vine - any of numerous annual tendril-bearing trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits

court game - an athletic game played on a court

undercut, cut - (sports) a stroke that puts reverse spin on the ball; "cuts do not bother a good tennis player"

forehand, forehand shot, forehand stroke - (sports) a return made with the palm of the hand facing the direction of the stroke (as in tennis or badminton or squash)

forehand drive - (sports) hard straight return made on the forehand side (as in tennis or badminton or squash)

drive - (sports) a hard straight return (as in tennis or squash)

serve, service - (sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play; "his powerful serves won the game"

fault - (sports) a serve that is illegal (e.g., that lands outside the prescribed area); "he served too many double faults"

rally, exchange - (sports) an unbroken sequence of several successive strokes; "after a short rally Connors won the point"

Cucurbitaceae, family Cucurbitaceae, gourd family - a family of herbaceous vines (such cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)

wring - twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels"

press - exert pressure or force to or upon; "He pressed down on the boards"; "press your thumb on this spot"

stamp - crush or grind with a heavy instrument; "stamp fruit extract the juice"

steamroller - crush with a steamroller as if to level; "steamroller the road"

tread - crush as if by treading on; "tread grapes to make wine"

telescope - crush together or collapse; "In the accident, the cars telescoped"; "my hiking sticks telescope and can be put into the backpack"