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

Care must be taken not to get this soup too thin, as the vegetable marrow itself contains a large quantity of water.

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

Then Augusta in a moment of inspiration thought of French beans and vegetable marrow . . . stuffed with chestnuts.

From A Bed of Roses by George, Walter Lionel

In flavour, it somewhat resembles a broiled vegetable marrow.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

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.