vegetable marrow

Questions about vegetable marrow

What does vegetable marrow mean?

vegetable marrow means "any of various squash plants grown for their elongated fruit with smooth dark green skin and whitish flesh". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for vegetable marrow?

Close synonyms include marrow, marrow squash, marrow. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is vegetable marrow a common word?

vegetable marrow is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.