squash vine

3.5

A plant that grows along the ground and produces pumpkins or similar edible fruits

noun
/skwɑʃ vaɪn/

: planta de calabaza

And also it gets high pest pressure from things like squash vine bores and squash bugs.
squash vine borer

Examples

In my garden, the squash vine sprawls across the soil, producing vibrant yellow flowers.
The squash vines will grow the same.

Fiction book (1995)
Sassy green leaves on those squash vines.

Fiction book (1998)
Shadows of corn plants and squash vines suddenly sprang out of the flat field and surrounded Jimmy One Rock with the summer night fragrance of wet, watered earth and green plants.

Fiction book (1992)
The gardener pruned the squash vine to encourage better growth of the delicious fruits.
As summer arrives, the squash vine thrives, creating a lush canopy of leaves and fruits.

Synonyms

squash

vssquash vine

68 1.6

A large edible fruit from plants like pumpkin or zucchini used as a vegetable

is the trailing annual plant grown mainly for its fleshy fruits

Cucurbita

vssquash vine

Specialized

8.4

A group of plants that includes squash, pumpkins and gourds

is a trailing annual plant grown for fleshy edible fruit, not the whole genus

Surface Forms

squash vine singular

squash vines plural

Morphology

squash + vine

The meaning denotes a vine that bears squash and is directly derivable from 'squash' (an edible gourd) + 'vine' (a trailing plant); the compound simply specifies the type of vine. This straightforward noun–noun composition follows common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

The noun squash vine describes the long plant that grows squash fruit. The word squash is the edible fruit and vine is the long stem that runs along the ground, so the name helps you picture the plant that spreads and makes pumpkins and other squashes.