VEGETABLE MARROW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vegetable marrow mean? 

• VEGETABLE MARROW (noun)
  The noun VEGETABLE MARROW has 2 senses:

1. any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh

2. large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins

  Familiarity information: VEGETABLE MARROW used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VEGETABLE MARROW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

marrow; marrow squash; vegetable marrow

Hypernyms ("vegetable marrow" is a kind of...):

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)

Meronyms (parts of "vegetable marrow"):

marrow; vegetable marrow (large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vegetable marrow"):

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Large elongated squash with creamy to deep green skins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

marrow; vegetable marrow

Hypernyms ("vegetable marrow" is a kind of...):

summer squash (any of various fruits of the gourd family that mature during the summer; eaten while immature and before seeds and rind harden)

Holonyms ("vegetable marrow" is a part of...):

marrow; marrow squash; vegetable marrow (any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh)