cymling

[ sim-ling ]

noun

1. pattypan squash.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cymling¹

1770–80, Americanism; also sim(b)lin, earlier symnel, from its resemblance to a simnel cake

Example Sentences

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.

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