yellow squash

Questions about yellow squash

What does yellow squash mean?

yellow squash means "any of various squash plants grown for their yellow fruits with somewhat elongated necks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is yellow squash a common word?

yellow squash is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.