cocozelle

noun

1. squash plant having dark green fruit with skin mottled with light green or yellow

• Syn: ↑Italian vegetable marrow

• Hypernyms: ↑marrow, ↑marrow squash, ↑vegetable marrow

2. squash resembling zucchini

• Hypernyms: ↑summer squash

• Part Holonyms: ↑Italian vegetable marrow

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\\|käkə|zelē\ noun (-s)

Etymology: probably from an Italian dialect word akin to Italian cocuzza squash, from Medieval Latin cocutia

: a smooth cylindrical dark green summer squash usually with lighter green to yellow stripes or mottlings and firm white to greenish flesh growing over a foot in length and four to five inches thick but usually used when half that size — called also Italian vegetable marrow; compare zucchini

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/kok'euh zel"ee/, n.

1. a variety of summer squash having a dark-green skin that is usually striped with light green or yellow.

2. the plant itself.

[of unclear orig., perh. < dial. form of It cocuzza gourd, pumpkin < LL cucutia, perh. a re-formation of L cucurbita GOURD; see -ELLE]