squashlike

comparative more squashlike · superlative most squashlike

1. Resembling or characteristic of a squash (the vegetable).

   This sweet pepper with tomato- or squashlike fruits is one of the oldest forms of Capsicum still being cultivated today.

   1995, Jean Andrews, Peppers: the domesticated Capsicums

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   ...his official mission concluded, he mopped his brow with a flaming yellow handkerchief which gave an extra jaundice to his already squashlike complexion...

   1910, The Cosmopolitan, volume 50, page 501

   Another son delivers small bowls of soupy brown lentils, which are to be poured over the rice. He returns with a green, squashlike vegetable and chutney.

   2006, Doris Friedensohn, Carol Kitman, Eating as I go: scenes from America and abroad