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zucchini
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1915 in English cookery books, 1910 in travel books about Italy as an Italian word (defined as "an odd kind of little squash, very tender and palatable"), from Italian, plural of zucchino, diminutive of zucca "gourd, squash," perhaps from Late Latin cucutia, which is of unknown origin.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Australian Canadian New Zealand US English) A courgette; a variety of squash, ''Cucurbita pepo'', which bears edible fruit. 2 (context Australian Canadian New Zealand US English) The edible fruit of this variety of squash.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Zucchini or courgette (, British English) is a summer squash which can reach nearly a meter in length, but which is usually harvested at half that size or less. In the British Isles, a fully grown zucchini is referred to as a marrow.
Along with certain other squashes and pumpkins, it belongs to the species Cucurbita pepo. Zucchini can be dark or light green. A related hybrid, the golden zucchini, is a deep yellow or orange color.
In a culinary context, zucchini is treated as a vegetable; it is usually cooked and presented as a savory dish or accompaniment. Botanically, zucchinis are fruits, a type of botanical berry called a "pepo", being the swollen ovary of the zucchini flower.
Zucchini, like all squash, has its ancestry in the Americas. However, the varieties of squash typically called "zucchini" were developed in Italy, many generations after their introduction from the Americas.
Zucchini is a 1982 children's novel by Barbara Dana and illustrated by Eileen Christelow. It was followed by a sequel, Zucchini Out West.
Zucchini is a type of squash. It may also refer to:
Usage examples of "zucchini".
For the same reason, artichokes in Italy are sold with their stems and outer leaves, tomatoes are still attached to their vines, and zucchini are displayed with their flowers intact.
There were slices of turkey with cranberry dressing, pureed squash, roast potatoes, succotash, and a basket full of tiny muffins with pieces of zucchini sticking out of them.
Tupperware containers heaped with ravioli, baked ziti, eggplant parmigiana, fried zucchini, and other things with unpronounceable names.
The other mailorder catalogues were of a more standard variety, but the stationmaster was such a victim of his superstitions that his dreams frequently confused the images of his mailorder religious material with the household gadgets, nursing bras, folding chairs, and giant zucchinis he saw advertised in the catalogues.
The sum total of civilization there consists of one PTA office, one corycium mine, and a bunch of humanoid natives with the collective IQ of a zucchini.
A single rose in a crystal vase was surrounded by the remains of shrimp cocktail, steak au poivre, pommes frites, and zucchini squash.
The mostly American-grown feast included smoked marinated shrimp, roast tenderloin of beef, baby vegetables in a zucchini basket and Yukon Gold potatoes with Vidalia onions.
These are the 26- and 28-spot ladybeetles, who look like predators, but who actually go through life gobbling your rockmelons, zucchinis, tomatoes and potatoes.
They had onion soup, salad, Chateaubriand with bearnaise sauce, and strips of zucchini marinated in oil and garlic, then broiled briefly.
Kinsey came back in carrying a bushel basket of zucchini labeled FREE and set it on the bar.
How could he exist in this clean, dry, monotonous, ordinary room, gobbling caramel soycorn and zucchini cheese puffs and addling his brain on spirituous liquors and brooding on the total fiasco that was his personal life, while the entire human race was kakking out?
These zucchini flowers stuffed with chicken mousse and black truffles aren't they exquisite, poor little Pookie, here.
Figs in sesame sauce, rice with basil, another soup with egg yolk, neatly sliced conger eel, radish, and mushrooms accompanied by roe of sea urchin, several kinds of fish, including turbot, snapper, pike, and squid wrapped in a collage with varied types of seaweed, and lotus root mixed with intricately cut mussels, cucumber, and zucchini.
The side dishes were french fries, fried onion rings, and batter-fried zucchini.
On the buffet picnic table were enormous bowls of homemade salads, a platter heaped with raw vegetables beautiful as works of art-bell peppers, tomatoes, sliced cucumbers, zucchini and yellow squash from Morn's garden.