Hubbard squash
- noun
- US
:
calabaza Hubbard
- The Hubbard squash at the farmers' market was the biggest winter squash I had ever seen.
Examples
-
Soup made from Hubbard squash has a rich, sweet flavor perfect for autumn meals.
-
Have you ever tried Hubbard squash soup?
-
I roasted a Hubbard squash for dinner and served it with brown butter.
-
I bought a large Hubbard squash at the market.
-
For dinner, we roasted a large Hubbard squash and served it with a drizzle of olive oil and herbs.
-
She made a delicious soup from the sweet orange flesh of the Hubbard squash harvested from her garden.
-
In autumn, many people enjoy making pies with Hubbard squash due to its rich, sweet flavor.
Synonyms
68
1.6
A large edible fruit from plants like pumpkin or zucchini used as a vegetable
2
3.6
A vegetable with hard skin and yellow or orange inside that people keep for winter
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Hubbard + squash
Hubbard functions as a proper name/varietal label and 'squash' names the food category, so the compound straightforwardly denotes a particular kind of squash; a B1 learner who knows 'squash' will readily infer it is a type/variety of squash even if they cannot predict the specific physical traits. This compositional pattern (name + noun = named variety) is common cross-linguistically and therefore counts as transparently interpretable at the category level.
Etymology
Hubbard squash may come from the name of a grower or seller called Hubbard who first brought this very large, bumpy squash to markets, and people began calling the vegetable by that name. That's why Hubbard squash today means 'a large winter squash with a warty skin and sweet orange flesh'.