![]() ![]() The name baby marrow is used in South Africa to name a zucchini harvested when extremely immature, the size of an index finger. It is loaned from French, where courgette ( French pronunciation: ) is a diminutive of courge, 'marrow'. The name courgette is used in British, Hiberno-, Malaysian, New Zealand, and South African English. Zucchini is also used in Canadian French, Danish, German, and Swedish. The feminine zucchina (plural: zucchine) is also found, and preferred by the Italian-language encyclopedia Treccani, which considers zucchino to be a Tuscan dialect word. In Italian, the masculine zucchino (plural: zucchini) is attested earlier and hence preferred by the Accademia della Crusca, the Italian language regulator. It is loaned from Italian, where zucchini is the plural masculine diminutive of zucca, 'marrow' ( Italian pronunciation: ). The name zucchini is used in American, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand English. Zucchini and courgette are doublets, both descending from the Latin cucurbita, 'gourd'. The plant has three names in English, all of them meaning 'small marrow': zucchini (an Italian loanword), usually used in the plural form even when only one zucchina is meant, courgette (a French loanword), and baby marrow ( South African English). ( January 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification. Zucchini descends from squashes first domesticated in Mesoamerica over 7,000 years ago, but the zucchini itself was bred in Milan in the late 19th century. Causes include stressed growing conditions, and cross pollination with ornamental squashes. Zucchini occasionally contain toxic cucurbitacins, making them extremely bitter, and causing severe gastero-enteric upsets. In cookery, it is treated as a vegetable, usually cooked and eaten as an accompaniment or savory dish, though occasionally used in sweeter cooking. In botany, the zucchini's fruit is a pepo, a berry (the swollen ovary of the zucchini flower) with a hardened epicarp. At maturity, they can grow to nearly 1 metre (3 feet) in length, but they are normally harvested at about 15–25 cm (6–10 in). ![]() Ordinary zucchini fruit are any shade of green, though the golden zucchini is a deep yellow or orange. Golden zucchini grown in the Netherlands for sale in a supermarket in Montpellier, France, in April 2013 ![]()
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