Squash, n.  Bot. A plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita, or gourd kind.
 Note: ☞ The species are much confused. The long-neck squash is called Cucurbita verrucosa, the Barbary or China squash, Cucurbita moschata, and the great winter squash, Cucurbita maxima, but the distinctions are not clear.
 Squash beetle Zool., a small American beetle (Diabrotica vittata, syn. Galeruca vittata) which is often abundant and very injurious to the leaves of squash, cucumber, etc.  It is striped with yellow and black.  The name is applied also to other allied species.
 Squash bug Zool., a large black American hemipterous insect (Coreus tristis syn. Anasa tristis) injurious to squash vines.


 squash bug
      n : large black American bug that sucks sap of vines of the
          gourd family [syn: Anasa tristis]