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vegetable marrow

noun

  1. any of various summer squashes, as the cocozelle and zucchini.


vegetable marrow

noun

  1. a cucurbitaceous plant, Cucurbita pepo, probably native to America but widely cultivated for its oblong green striped fruit, which is eaten as a vegetable
  2. Also calledUSmarrow squash the fruit of this plant
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of vegetable marrow1

First recorded in 1810–20

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