zucchinin.
/zʊˈkiːni/, U.S. /zuˈkini/ a. With plural (and also singular) agreement. Courgettes.The usual word for the vegetable in North America and Australia.
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vegetable marrow1822
marrow1855
succade gourd1866
zucchini1929
courgette1931
vegetable spaghetti1973
1929 Sunset Feb. 58/2 Wash the succini and slice thinly into a baking pan.
1945 B. Macdonald Egg & I iv. xiii. 183 Succulent summer squash and zucchini where it seemed only a matter of an hour ago there were blossoms.
1960 Guardian 15 July 8/7 The miniature vegetable marrows called courgettes in France and zucchini in Italy.
1966 T. 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.
1975 Telegraph (Brisbane) 11 Sept. 30/2 Zucchini, although a relatively new vegetable, is rapidly becoming an alternative to the old standards.
1982 L. Kallen Introd. C. B. Greenfield xiii. 125 I kept on to the market..to replenish our stores of onions, zucchini, and Bartlett pears.
b. attributive.
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zucchini1960
1960 House & Garden Aug. 72/3 We..will grow..those exquisite little Zucchini marrows.
1967 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 4 Nov. 8 They were all charged with having stolen four cases of zucchini melons.
1979 E. Newman Sunday Punch xv. 127 The waiters had wheeled in zucchini quiche.
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