Squash vs. Gourd

Squashnoun

(uncountable) A sport played in a walled court with a soft rubber ball and bats like tennis racquets.

Squashnoun

(British) A soft drink made from a fruit-based concentrate diluted with water.

Squashnoun

A place or a situation where people have limited space to move.

Squashnoun

Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of peas.

Squashnoun

Something unripe or soft.

Squashnoun

A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

Squashnoun

An extremely one-sided, usually short, match.

Squashnoun

A plant and its fruit of any of a few species of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

Squashnoun

Cucurbita maxima, including hubbard squash, great winter squash, buttercup squash, and some varieties of pumpkins.

Squashnoun

Cucurbita argyrosperma subsp. argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), cushaw squash.

Squashnoun

Cucurbita moschata, butternut squash, Barbary squash, China squash.

Squashnoun

Cucurbita pepo, most pumpkins, acorn squash, summer squash, zucchini.

Squashnoun

(botany) Any other similar-looking plant of other genera.

Squashnoun

Lagenaria siceraria (syn. Cucurbita verrucosa), calabash, long-neck squash.

Squashnoun

(culinary) The edible or decorative fruit of these plants, or this fruit prepared as a dish.

Squashnoun

Muskrat.

Squashverb

(transitive) To beat or press into pulp or a flat mass; to crush.

Squashverb

To compress or restrict (oneself) into a small space; to squeeze.

Squashverb

(transitive) To suppress; to force into submission.

Squashnoun

An American animal allied to the weasel.

Squashnoun

A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.

Squashnoun

Something soft and easily crushed; especially, an unripe pod of pease.

Squashnoun

Hence, something unripe or soft; - used in contempt.

Squashnoun

A sudden fall of a heavy, soft body; also, a shock of soft bodies.

Squashnoun

any of numerous annual tendril-bearing trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits

Squashnoun

edible fruit of a squash plant; eaten as a vegetable

Squashnoun

a game played in an enclosed court by two or four players who strike the ball with long-handled rackets

Squashverb

to compress with violence, out of natural shape or condition;

Gourdnoun

Any of the trailing or climbing vines producing fruit with a hard rind or shell, from the genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita (in Cucurbitaceae).

Gourdnoun

A hard-shelled fruit from a plant in Lagenaria or Cucurbita.

Gourdnoun

The dried and hardened shell of such fruit, made into a drinking vessel, bowl, spoon, or other objects designed for use or decoration.

Gourdnoun

(obsolete) Any of the climbing or trailing plants from the family Cucurbitaceae, which includes watermelon, pumpkins, and cucumbers.

Gourdnoun

(informal) loaded dice.

Gourdnoun

(slang) Head.

Gourdnoun

A fleshy, three-celled, many-seeded fruit, as the melon, pumpkin, cucumber, etc., of the order Cucurbitaceæ; and especially the bottle gourd (Lagenaria vulgaris) which occurs in a great variety of forms, and, when the interior part is removed, serves for bottles, dippers, cups, and other dishes.

Gourdnoun

A dipper or other vessel made from the shell of a gourd; hence, a drinking vessel; a bottle.

Gourdnoun

A false die. See Gord.

Gourdnoun

A silver dollar; - so called in Cuba, Haiti, etc.

Gourdnoun

bottle made from the dried shell of a bottle gourd

Gourdnoun

any of numerous inedible fruits with hard rinds

Gourdnoun

any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds

Gourd

Gourds include the fruits of some flowering plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly Cucurbita and Lagenaria. The term refers to a number of species and subspecies, many with hard shells, and some without.