zucchinihttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zucchini_n%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezucchini, n.
First published 1986; not fully revised

zucchininoun

    1. a.
      1916–
      With plural (and also singular) agreement. Courgettes.
      The usual word for the vegetable in North America and Australia.
      1. 1916
        Then there are the zucchini, a sort of green squash, which when cut up and fried or stewed in stock are very good.
        Boston Sunday Globe 19 November 41/2
      2. 1929
        Wash the succini and slice thinly into a baking pan.
        Sunset February 58/2
      3. 1945
        Succulent summer squash and zucchini where it seemed only a matter of an hour ago there were blossoms.
        B. Macdonald, Egg & I iv. xiii. 183
      4. 1960
        The miniature vegetable marrows called courgettes in France and zucchini in Italy.
        Guardian 15 July 8/7
      5. 1966
        Around them all, Negroes carried gunboats of mashed potatoes, spinach, shrimp, zucchini, pot roast, to the long, glittering steam tables.
        T. Pynchon, Crying of Lot 49 iv. 82
      6. 1975
        Zucchini, although a relatively new vegetable, is rapidly becoming an alternative to the old standards.
        Telegraph (Brisbane) 11 September 30/2
      7. 1982
        I kept on to the market..to replenish our stores of onions, zucchini, and Bartlett pears.
        L. Kallen, Introd. C. B. Greenfield xiii. 125
    2. b.
      1960–
      attributive.
      1. 1960
        We..will grow..those exquisite little Zucchini marrows.
        House & Garden August 72/3
      2. 1967
        They were all charged with having stolen four cases of zucchini melons.
        Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 4 November 8
      3. 1979
        The waiters had wheeled in zucchini quiche.
        E. Newman, Sunday Punch xv. 127

zucchini, n. was first published in 1986; not fully revised.

zucchini, n. was last modified in December 2024.