zucchini
zoo-KEE-nee/zuːˈkiː.ni/zuh-KEE-nee
Pluralzucchinis, zucchini
- 1A long green vegetable with smooth skin, cooked and eaten in many dishes.
Like a cucumber, but you cook it instead of eating it raw.
I sliced a zucchini into thin rounds for the salad.
We grilled zucchini with olive oil and garlic for dinner.
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- 2A garden plant that grows long green vegetables during the summer.
Like a tomato plant, but it grows long green vegetables instead of red ones.
We planted zucchini along the back fence this spring.
Each zucchini plant can spread across a wide patch of soil.
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Origin
From Italian zucchini, the plural of zucchino, a little form of zucca meaning "squash."