hubbard squash

Questions about hubbard squash

What does hubbard squash mean?

hubbard squash means "any of several winter squash plants producing large greyish-green football-shaped fruit with a rough warty rind". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for hubbard squash?

Close synonyms include Cucurbita maxima. 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 hubbard squash a common word?

hubbard squash 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.