cucurbita maxima

1. 1.

   plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind

   Synonymsbutternut squash

   Broaderwinter squash

   Partsbutternut squash
2. 2.

   any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind

   Synonymshubbard squash

   Broaderwinter squash

   Part ofCucurbita

   Partshubbard squash

Questions about cucurbita maxima

What does cucurbita maxima mean?

cucurbita maxima means "plant bearing buff-colored squash having somewhat bottle-shaped fruit with fine-textured edible flesh and a smooth thin rind". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for cucurbita maxima?

Close synonyms include butternut squash, hubbard squash. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cucurbita maxima a common word?

cucurbita maxima is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.