cushaw

Other forms of cushaw

plural

cushaws·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cushaw

What does cushaw mean?

cushaw means "plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cushaw?

cushaw has 2 syllables: cu-shaw. The stress falls on "cu".

What is another word for cushaw?

Close synonyms include Cucurbita mixta, Cucurbita argyrosperma. 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 cushaw a common word?

cushaw 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.