vegetable marrow

vegetable marrow

n. Chiefly British

Marrow squash.

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vegetable marrow

Noun

a long green vegetable which can be cooked and eaten

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	vegetable marrow - any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh marrow squash, marrow vegetable marrow, marrow - large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins Cucurbita pepo melopepo, summer squash, summer squash vine - any of various usually bushy plants producing fruit that is eaten while immature and before the rind or seeds harden courgette, zucchini - marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small cocozelle, Italian vegetable marrow - squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow
	2.	vegetable marrow - large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins marrow summer squash - any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden marrow squash, vegetable marrow, marrow - any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh