| 词汇 | squash |
| 词源 | squash. Asquutasquash, meaning “that which is eaten raw,” was the Narraganset Indian word for a kind of melon. No won- der that early colonists abbreviated the word to squash. Later, they somehow transferred the word squash to what we know now as squash, which of course is not usually eaten raw, but which resembles a melon. |
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