NOUN
- globose or ovoid squash with striped grey and green warty rind
- plant bearing squash having globose to ovoid fruit with variously striped grey and green and white warty rinds
How To Use cushaw In A Sentence
- Cultivars include most of the cushaws, ‘Gila Cliff Dweller’, the silver-seeded gourds, and many of the sweet potato squashes and potato pumpkins
- Sandhill Preservation Center has a couple of cushaws.
- They are a lot of fun to grow along with the cushaws.
- Inside the open market you will find cushaws, hubbard, acorn, and butternut squash.
- Make this very colorful main dish with any type of winter squash such as butternut, cushaw, kabocha, acorn, delicata or hubbard.
- Cucurbita mixta includes many of the traditional winter squashes known as cushaws, which have been grown since early times from Guatemala to the southwestern U.S. Members of this species are drought-tolerant and their flesh is generally paler, stringier and less sweet than other types of squash.
- In November, the basement is full of butternut squash, sweet potatoes, white potatoes and cushaw squash. Signs of the Times
- While most are either maxima, moschata or pepo, the Cushaw is a strain of mixta. Groundwork: A winter squash named Cushaw
- I believe the squash that you are referring to may also be called a cushaw squash.
- “Mr. K sent three new kinds of teparies,” my father was saying, “plus a cushaw squash I don’t think we’ve seen before, some kind of gourd seeds, and a sixty-day corn—all late-season varieties to plant before the rains.” KOKOPELLI’S FLUTE