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vegetable marrow
noun
- any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.
vegetable marrow
noun
- a cucurbitaceous plant, Cucurbita pepo, probably native to America but widely cultivated for its oblong green striped fruit, which is eaten as a vegetable
- Also calledUSmarrow squash the fruit of this plant
Word History and Origins
Origin of vegetable marrow1
Example Sentences
They are either cocozelle, an Italian summer squash, or vegetable marrow, popular in the Middle East.
At the end of summer came the harvest festival, that strange Anglican anachronism now centred on the ritual donation of tinned goods and unwanted vegetable marrows.
Dorothy's imagination had been touched by reading of three Vanity marriages that were now sharing the attention of the holiday press with giant gooseberries and vegetable marrows of mortal seeming.
John made a start towards the end of November with oats and wheat; next month he sowed cabbages, peas, tomatoes, potatoes and vegetable marrows, and planted a few apple-tree slips.
The vegetable marrow shown in the accompanying photograph was grown by my brother, Mr. David Ager, gardener to Mr. Milton Bode, of West Dean, near Reading, the well-known gold medallist for chrysanthemum culture.
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