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Borrowed from Italian zucchini, plural of zucchino, diminutive of zucca (“squash”). Ultimately related to courgette through the original Latin cucurbita. Compare Sicilian cucuzza.

zucchini (plural zucchinis or **zucchini)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US, Philippines) A courgette; a variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo, which bears edible fruit.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US, Philippines) The edible fruit of this variety of squash.

zucchini

  1. plural of zucchino

From Italian zucchino, diminutive of zucca (“pumpkin”).

zucchini c (singular definite zucchinien, plural indefinite zucchinier)

  1. courgette, squash, zucchini

< Italian zucchini

zucchini

  1. synonym of kesäkurpitsa (“zucchini”)

zucchini m (plural zucchinis)

  1. (North America) zucchini

zucchini m pl

  1. plural of zucchino

  2. ^ zucchini in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

zucchini c

  1. squash (plant and its fruit of the genus Cucurbita)
    Synonym: squash

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