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squashlike en · ADJ

Etymology

From squash + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a squash (the vegetable).
   • Another son delivers small bowls of soupy brown lentils, which are to be poured over the rice. He returns with a green, squashlike vegetable and chutney. 2006, Doris Friedensohn, Carol Kitman, Eating as I go: scenes from America and abroad:
   • ...his official mission concluded, he mopped his brow with a flaming yellow handkerchief which gave an extra jaundice to his already squashlike complexion... 1910, The Cosmopolitan, volume 50, page 501:
   • This sweet pepper with tomato- or squashlike fruits is one of the oldest forms of Capsicum still being cultivated today. 1995, Jean Andrews, Peppers: the domesticated Capsicums:

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