|käkə|zelē noun
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Etymology: probably from an Italian dialect word akin to Italian cocuzza squash, from Medieval Latin cocutia
: a smooth cylindrical dark green summer squash usually with lighter green to yellow stripes or mottlings and firm white to greenish flesh growing over a foot in length and four to five inches thick but usually used when half that size — called also Italian vegetable marrow ; compare zucchini