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MARROW SQUASH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

marrow; marrow squash; vegetable marrow

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("marrow squash" 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 "marrow squash"):

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

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

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)

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