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marrow

marrow

1 4.7
A large green vegetable like a squash with pale flesh
  • noun
  • /ˈmɛroʊ/
  • UK
: calabacín
  • "I thought of the kitchen heaped with plates, and I remembered Mistress Grofe's buttered marrows."
  • vegetable marrow
  • buttered marrows

Examples

  • Someone's grown a U-shaped marrow.

    Calendar Girls (2003)

  • I shall be making marrow chutney today (which I hope will be better than the sloppy marrow and ginger jam I made a couple of weeks ago!).

    Blog text (11)

  • I hope to perfect a new strain of the vegetable marrows.

    Death on the Nile (2022)

  • Cucumbers, give way to marrows.

    Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

  • The cider, atop the mass of lamb, soup, marrows, and pastry, made me very warm, and the company's laughter had softened my mood further.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • I bought a large marrow at the farmers' market to make soup.

  • She harvested several fresh marrows from her garden this summer.

  • The chef prepared a delicious dish using tender slices of marrow stuffed with herbs.

Synonyms

squash
vsmarrow
67 1.6

A large edible fruit from plants like pumpkin or zucchini used as a vegetable

is one specific large elongated type within that broader category
vegetable marrow
vsmarrow
  • UK
1 6.4

A long green summer squash with pale inside that people eat

is the same vegetable but uses the shorter simpler name
marrow squash
vsmarrow
  • UK
5.3

A long green vegetable like a large zucchini with pale inside used for cooking

is the edible vegetable form of that plant rather than the plant itself
Italian vegetable marrow
vsmarrow
  • UK
5.6

A dark green squash with light patches used in Mediterranean cooking

is the common large green vegetable not tied to a specific regional cuisine

Idioms

to the marrow
  • Literature
3 8.8

A very deep feeling that reaches someone's heart

Compounds

bone marrow
  • Specialized
94 3.0

Soft, fatty part inside bones that makes blood cells for the body

bone marrow
1 3.4

Soft, fatty part inside some bones that people eat as a rich food

vegetable marrow
  • UK
1 6.4

A long green summer squash with pale inside that people eat

red marrow
  • Specialized
1 4.8

Soft part inside bones that makes red blood cells

red bone marrow
  • Specialized
1 4.9

Soft, spongy part inside some bones that makes red blood cells

yellow marrow
  • Specialized
1 7.5

The soft material inside long bones of adults that is yellow because it stores fat

yellow bone marrow
  • Specialized
1 6.1

Tissue inside the hollow part of long bones in adults that stores fat

marrow squash
  • UK
5.3

A long green vegetable like a large zucchini with pale inside used for cooking

Italian vegetable marrow
  • UK
5.6

A dark green squash with light patches used in Mediterranean cooking

How Big

pumpkin
314 1.0
marrow
  • UK
1 4.7
squash
67 1.6
zucchini
  • US
41 1.6

Surface Forms

marrow singular
marrows plural

Etymology

Marrow for the vegetable was named the same way, from old English mearg 'soft inside', because the large squash has soft pale flesh inside. So a marrow can mean a big squash with soft inner flesh.