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yellow squash
  1. n. any of various squash plants grown for their yellow fruits with somewhat elongated necks

  2. squash having yellow skin and yellowish flesh and usually elongated neck

Usage examples of "yellow squash".

She took a plant with the untantalizing name yellow squash number 116 and an equally untantalizing flavor and she created sweet brindle squash.

On the buffet picnic table were enormous bowls of homemade salads, a platter heaped with raw vegetables beautiful as works of art-bell peppers, tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, zucchini and yellow squash from Morn's garden.

There were a few yellow squash ready to be picked, and she decided to make a squash casserole for dinner.

Yarrl shovels a pile of the mashed yellow squash onto the brown plate, then uses his tin spoon to take a mouthful.

They brought no wares, but some of them carried fruits and a great yellow squash: produce bought in Spiral Town.

And she could not remember remembering a molly apple or a yellow squash.

Alex, take the ladder back to the barn and then set the sprinkler on the yellow squash.

Around him now he saw closely-planted rows of corn, an early-ripening hybrid, and between the rows, great hairy squash plants on which odd yellow squash like bowling balls grew.

The garden with its rows of corn, bright-yellow squash, butter beans and turnips was well weeded and neatly fenced with split-oak rails.

Dahlia figured she was getting to the point where she was gonna throw up if anyone so much as mentioned yellow squash.

When they stopped for lunch, they wandered into the fields and discovered that one of their staple foods under the dome, a vegetable with a taste similar to a green bean but with the physical appearance of a yellow squash, was the principal crop being grown.

Now and then, she nodded to a shopkeeper, stopped to buy something-a plastic bag packed with ground pepper the color of blood, a bunch of bananas, a bag of small yellow squash.

They also overtook farmers carrying braces of chickens, trudging along beside their wives lugging baskets of eggs, or bunches of onions, or carrots, or bushels of beans, and once an oxcart piled high with turnips, and another with yellow squash as big and round as heads.

To their left was a beautiful plot of plump yellow squash and mechini.

Sedley is a marvelous storyteller with an appearance that greatly enhances his every tale: a mane of white hair, huge muttonchop sideburns, twinkling blue eyes as bloodshot as those of a survivor of any Megadeath concert, a nose the size of a formidable yellow squash and the color of an overripe tomato, pendulously fat lips, a tattooed tongue, a robust and barrel-chested body, and hands large enough and strong enough to strangle an ox.