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
- This book is also about hog-killing and smokehouses, about making lye hominy and gathering wild greens, about ramps and cushaws and leather-britches, about cracklin’ bread and corn-cob jelly, whistle pig and poke sallet, apple butter and stack cakes.’
- Seeds of green-and-white-striped cushaw squash are toasted for snacks or ground to prepare Pipian sauces.
- Despite their reputation for drought tolerance C. mixta varieties (or cushaw squash) were believed to be strictly hot desert or humid-tropical varieties, unable to mature in our cool climate. Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway
- Whether it is a bowl of mini-pumpkins on a table, a stack of cushaws, luminas and blue hubbards by the front door, or a traditional Jack-o-lantern, there is no easier way to decorate for the season.
- But the cushaw brings real excitement to her voice. Post-gazette.com - News
- In a 1-gallon stock pot, boil the cushaw in lightly sweetened water until tender but not mushy.
- Southern tribes raised winter crooknecks, cushaws, and green and white striped sweet potato squashes.
- So, while you can probably grow butternut, cushaw and a summer squash and have no crossing, your zucchini and Halloween pumpkin will cross. Recently Uploaded Slideshows
- Beautiful large curved neck reaching only 5 to 10 lb. Same flesh qualities as the green striped and other cushaw squash without the enormous size, so perfect for home gardener and market grower alike. 15 seeds avg. - $2.39
- While most are either maxima, moschata or pepo, the Cushaw is a strain of mixta. Groundwork: A winter squash named Cushaw
