vegetable marrow

American  

noun

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

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vegetable marrow British  

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 called: marrow squash.  the fruit of this plant

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Etymology

Origin of vegetable marrow

First recorded in 1810–20

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vegetable marrow

EB White said of Punch – originally launched in 1841, and subtitled the London Charivari – that it was "as British as vegetable marrow", and that it constituted a legislature in its own right.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 4, 2010

I was very fond of vegetable marrow and used to grow a very fine kind.

From From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography by George Edwards M.P. O.B.E.

N.B.—If you place the stuffing inside cold, the vegetable marrow will break before the inside gets hot through.

From Cassell's Vegetarian Cookery A Manual of Cheap and Wholesome Diet by A. G. Payne

Use.—The fruit is eaten while it is quite young and small; served in the manner of cucumbers, or like vegetable marrow.

From The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use. by Fearing Burr

I should have added a fourth to the list of stand-bys—to wit: the vegetable marrow.

From Eating in Two or Three Languages by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb