Askútasquash

A gray, overcast day, but I found a bit of color at a new roadside produce stand. I've always thought pumpkins and squash somehow look brighter and photograph better under overcast skies, anyway.



squash - noun, plural squash·es, (especially collectively) squash.

1. the fruit of any of various vinelike, tendril-bearing plants belonging to the genus Curcurbita, of the gourd family, as C. moschata or C. pepo, used as a vegetable.

2. any of these plants.

[Origin: 1635 - 45, Americanism; < Narragansett (E sp.) [/i]askútasquash (pl.)]