2. Verb. (third-person singular of squash) ¹
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Definition of Squashes
1. squash [v] - See also: squash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squashes
Literary usage of Squashes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"Sometimes the hills of squashes are covered with wire gauze or mosquito ...
The mildews of squashes may be kept in check with more or less certainty by the ..."
2. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1859)
"Hubbard squashes were shown in abundance, and genuine; also, extra large cauliflowers
and handsome Marrow squashes. Among the new things, Messrs. ..."
3. The California Vegetables in Garden and Field: A Manual of Practice, with by Edward James Wickson (1913)
"The California-grown squashes are all noted for prodigious size and the acre-product
... squashes have been used from the early days as exponents of size in ..."
4. Garden Farming by Lee Cleveland Corbett (1913)
"squashes The squash is one of the garden products the value and merits of which few
... The important varieties of garden squashes belong to three species, ..."
5. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1916)
"These remarks apply particularly to winter squashes in northern regions. ...
For early results with bush squashes, or when the land is of a cold or backward ..."
6. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"squashes AND GOURDS Emerson (1910), while at the Nebraska Experiment Station,
made a study of size inheritance in a cross between Yellow Crookneck and White ..."