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Cucurbita argyrosperma, commonly known as cushaw, kershaw, or silver-seed gourd, is a species of squash most grown most frequently in North and Central America, and believed to originate from southern Mexico.
Cushaw squash; C. ficifolia. Fig-leaf squash. Fig-leaf squash; C. maxima. Atlantic Giant Buttercup squash Kabocha Red kuri Turban squash. Amphora; Aurantiaca-Alba ...
Cushaw (or kershaw) is a common name for a winter squash with a curved neck. It may refer to: Cucurbita argyrosperma (syn. Cucurbita mixta), the species most commonly associated with "cushaw", which includes the green-striped cushaw and the white cushaw; Cucurbita moschata, the species that includes the golden cushaw and the orange-striped cushaw
Cooking with squash is easy to do, especially in pastas, soups, and more. Look for these different types of winter and summer squash varieties.
[98] [99] The English word "squash" derives from askutasquash (a green thing eaten raw), a word from the Narragansett language, which was documented by Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, in his 1643 publication A Key Into the Language of America. [100] Similar words for squash exist in related languages of the Algonquian family. [57 ...
Gourd is occasionally used to describe crop plants in the family Cucurbitaceae, like pumpkins, cucumbers, squash, luffa, and melons. [1] More specifically, gourd refers to the fruits of plants in the two Cucurbitaceae genera Lagenaria and Cucurbita, [2] [3] or also to their hollow, dried-out shell. There are many different gourds worldwide.
Historically, varieties of cushaw squash now classified as Cucurbita argyrosperma were assigned to Cucurbita moschata. A small number of C. moschata varieties are still commonly known as cushaws. Genetic research indicates that, while distinct species, C. argyrosperma and C. moschata are closely related. [6]
The English word squash is derived from a Massachusett word, variously transcribed as askętasquash, [10] ashk8tasqash, or, in the closely related Narragansett language, askútasquash.) [11] Researchers have noted that the term pumpkin and related terms like ayote and calabaza are applied to a range of winter squash with varying size and shape ...