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Pronunciation
British English IPA|/'skw��/
American English IPA|/'skw��/
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Noun
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- A game much like rackets, played in a walled court with soft rubber balls and bats like tennis rackets.
- botany 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.
- UK A soft drink made of citrus fruits and soda water.
- context|obsolete|zoo A muskrat, short form of musquash.
- obsolete Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.
#:Not yet old enough for a man, nor young enough for a boy; as a squash is before 't is a peascod. --Shak.
- obsolete Hence, something unripe or soft; -- used in contempt.
#:This squash, this gentleman. --Shak.
- obsolete A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.
#:My fall was stopped by a terrible squash. --Swift
Translations
trans-top|game much like rackets
Finnish: squash, t|fi|kössi
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Kurdish: KUchar|سک�اش
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trans-top|plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita
Finnish: t|fi|kurpitsa
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Kurdish: KUchar|ک�د�
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ttbc|Spanish: ayote
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Verb
en-verb|squash|es
- transitive To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.
Translations
trans-top|to beat or press into pulp or flat mass
Finnish: t|fi|murskata, t|fi|puristaa, t|fi|soseuttaa
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Related terms
squash beetle
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