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

Example Sentences

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

You with the mug on you like a vegetable marrow!

From Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy by Greene, John B.

They were followed by the geisha, each girl carrying a little white china bottle shaped like a vegetable marrow, and a tiny cup like the bath which hygienic old maids provide for their canary birds.

From Kimono by Paris, John

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 Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)

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 Huish, Robert