Definitions
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- noun A scalloped or “pattypan” variety of summer squash.
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- noun A
scalloped orpattypan variety ofsummer squash .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun squash plant having flattened round fruit with a scalloped edge; usually greenish white
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Pattypan squash, also known as cymling or scallop squash, is a tiny saucer-shaped vegetable with a scalloped edge.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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Pattypan squash, also known as cymling or scallop squash, is a tiny saucer-shaped vegetable with a scalloped edge.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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Pattypan squash, also known as cymling or scallop squash, is a tiny saucer-shaped vegetable with a scalloped edge.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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Pattypan squash, also known as cymling or scallop squash, is a tiny saucer-shaped vegetable with a scalloped edge.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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Pattypan squash, also known as cymling or scallop squash, is a tiny saucer-shaped vegetable with a scalloped edge.
Make It Easy Make It Light Laurie Burrows Grad 1987
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In cultivating this vegetable, the small bunch cymling is the best, as it takes so little room in the garden, and comes soon to maturity; if they are so hard that a pin will not run in easily, they are unfit for use.
Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers Elizabeth E. Lea
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Suffolk, now living, who stated that he saw a cymling vine at jack's
The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections Vivid portrayal of Amusing Scenes Robert Arnold
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I was in the Swamp during that year and saw the cymling vine above alluded to, and no one could tell how it came to grow there.
The Dismal Swamp and Lake Drummond, Early recollections Vivid portrayal of Amusing Scenes Robert Arnold
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An oval-shaped, rough, hard and knotty cornfield cymling would make a fine photograph and an excellent representation of his head, which was covered with thick, dark hair; shaggy eyebrows hung over two small, squint eyes, which resembled those of a hog; the nose was small and long, the end always pointing
John M. Copley. A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn. ... 1893
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Rational Review 2009
bilby commented on the word cymling
Do you like cymling?
April 14, 2014
qms commented on the word cymling
I don't know. I've never cymled.
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April 14, 2014
qms commented on the word cymling
It's humble and not at all posh,
An earthy inelegant nosh.
A lumpy, pale, thin thing,
The cringing wee cymling
Just begs to be treated as squash.
March 25, 2015