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

Fruit Soup.—Fruit soup can be made from rhubarb, vegetable marrow, cucumber, gourd, or pumpkin.

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

Many variations will suggest themselves—cauliflower, parsnips, vegetable marrow, sliced tomatoes, beetroot, &c., instead of the other vegetables.

From Reform Cookery Book (4th edition) Up-To-Date Health Cookery for the Twentieth Century. by Mrs. (Jean Oliver) Mill

But nature, ever bountiful, supplies its place with the mi-cadania or butter tree, which yields abundance of a kind of vegetable marrow, pleasant to the taste, and highly esteemed by the natives.

From Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa by Robert Huish

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.

From The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various