acorn squash
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- noun
- /ˈeɪkɔrn skwɑʃ/
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calabaza bellota
- Toss the acorn squash with the oil, garlic, rosemary, salt, and pepper.
- butternut or acorn squash
- Roasted acorn squash
- Baked acorn squash
These are varieties like butternut squash, acorn squash, like a candy roaster squash, things like that.
- These are varieties like butternut squash, acorn squash, like a candy roaster squash, things like that.
- The orange are going to be pumpkin, butternut squash, acorn squash is good too, and carrots.
- Things like butternut squash, sweet potatoes, in some instances, acorn squash, spaghetti squash.
Examples
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This yields a lovely soup, as does acorn squash.
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Oh, this is an autumn acorn squash and there are some fruits forming in here.
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I roasted an acorn squash for 40 minutes at 400 degrees.
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Your acorn squash and bacon patty things are freakin' bomb.
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Especially since I have a list of fall-type dishes that I want to cook this weekend: stuffed acorn squash, Brussels sprouts, and pumpkin ice cream (which I'll share if it turns out good).
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The evening headlines on TV: barbecued lamb patties with acorn squash and jug rose for dinner as the sun set behind the pines; a short bike ride together around the twilit neighborhood.
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Finally, I wedged it between a Kaiser roll and paired it with roasted rosemary acorn squash, which I loosely adapted from another recipe in the book.
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I prepared a delicious dish using acorn squash as the main ingredient.
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For dinner, we roasted acorn squash and served it with a sprinkle of cinnamon.
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A warm soup made from acorn squash is perfect for chilly autumn nights.
Synonyms
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A large edible fruit from plants like pumpkin or zucchini used as a vegetable
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A squash with tan skin and sweet orange flesh
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A pale tan-skinned vegetable with sweet orange flesh and a bottle-like shape used for cooking
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A vegetable with hard skin and yellow or orange inside that people keep for winter
A squash with hard skin and a long curved neck that stores well and is good for winter meals
A winter squash with hard skin and a long curved neck
A round dark green vegetable with dense sweet orange flesh
A large winter squash with bumpy green skin and sweet orange flesh
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Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'acorn' (a nut, with a distinctive acorn shape) modifies 'squash' (an edible gourd), so the phrase denotes a type of squash that is shaped/associated with an acorn. This noun‑noun naming pattern is transparent and cross‑linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the basic meaning.
Etymology
Acorn squash comes from how the vegetable looks: this small winter squash has a ridged, rounded shape like an acorn, the nut from an oak tree, so people named it acorn squash.