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zucchini, n. pl.|zuːˈkiːnɪ|
[a. It., pl. of zucchino (small) marrow, dim. of zucca gourd.]
a. Courgettes. Also const. as sing.
The usual word for the vegetable in N. America and Australia.
1929Sunset Feb. 58/2 Wash the succini and slice thinly into a baking pan. 1945B. MacDonald Egg & I iv. xiii. 183 Succulent summer squash and zucchini where it seemed only a matter of an hour ago there were blossoms. 1960Guardian 15 July 8/7 The miniature vegetable marrows called courgettes in France and zucchini in Italy. 1966T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 iv. 82 Around them all, Negroes carried gunboats of mashed potatoes, spinach, shrimp, zucchini, pot roast, to the long, glittering steam tables. 1975Telegraph (Brisbane) 11 Sept. 30/2 Zucchini, although a relatively new vegetable, is rapidly becoming an alternative to the old standards. 1982L. Kallen C. B. Greenfield xiii. 125, I kept on to the market..to replenish our stores of onions, zucchini, and Bartlett pears.
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1960House & Garden Aug. 72/3 We..will grow..those exquisite little Zucchini marrows. 1967Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 4 Nov. 8 They were all charged with having stolen four cases of zucchini melons. 1979E. Newman Sunday Punch xv. 127 The waiters had wheeled in zucchini quiche. |