summer squash
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- noun
- /ˈsʌmər skwɑʃ/
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calabacín
- Lutein, along with several other carotenes, gives summer squash, apricots, peaches, and oranges their yellow to light-orange color.
Now, winter squash differ from summer squash in that they have a much harder skin on the outside.
- Now, winter squash differ from summer squash in that they have a much harder skin on the outside.
- Whereas you eat zucchini or summer squash, as the plant is growing, the more you harvest, the more you're going to get.
Examples
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Last summer, she had an overabundance of summer squash and came up with the great idea of extending their shelf life by pickling them.
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Here is something to try with all the summer squash still left in your garden.
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I think I'll plant some summer squash next year.
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Start by cutting your summer squash.
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The girls tended a garden of tomatoes, summer squash, and peas.
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Using a mandolin, carefully slice zucchini or summer squash.
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There was cilantro-marinated shrimp, roasted mussels, fresh ham, Vidalia onions, and summer squash.
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I put in a garden at the end of the month, turning up grass with a hoe in back of the house by the shed, setting in snap beans and summer squash—good food, food to grow babies by.
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I would like to start planting some basil and summer squash, and maybe some other herbs, but I don't do too well with those either. I think I need to buy some planting beds to keep the critters out.
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I like to combine yellow and green summer squash for color contrast.
Synonyms
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A long green vegetable like a small squash that people usually cook
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2.7
A long yellow vegetable with soft skin that you cook and eat
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6.4
A long green summer squash with pale inside that people eat
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6.1
A yellow squash with a thin curved neck and slightly bumpy skin grown as a vegetable
A summer squash like a zucchini with dark and light green stripes
A bushy plant like zucchini or pattypan that produces edible squash picked when young
A bushy plant that grows soft edible squash eaten young
A yellow vegetable with a thin curved neck and bumpy skin
A yellow squash with a thin curved neck and slightly bumpy skin used in cooking
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Morphology
The meaning ('a type of squash associated with summer, eaten while still soft/immature') is directly derivable from combining 'summer' (the season) with 'squash' (the edible gourd). This follows a regular noun–noun compounding pattern common in English (and in many other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the sense.
Etymology
The noun summer squash comes from how people harvest and eat this vegetable: farmers pick the soft, young squash during the warm summer months. Because these fruits are 'picked while young' and usually 'eaten fresh' instead of stored for winter, the name now means a type of squash eaten while still soft.