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cocozelle

cocozelle noun: a variety of squash with dark green skin mottled by lighter green or yellow.

cocozelle: a variety of squash with dark green skin mottled by lighter green or yellow
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Noun

cocozelle (countable and uncountable, plural cocozelles)

  1. A variety of squash with dark green skin mottled by lighter green or yellow.
    • Cocozelle, which are mostly grown in Italy, are longer and thinner than zucchini and slightly bulbous at the flower end.2008, Russ Parsons, How to Pick a Peach: The Search for Flavor from Farm to Table, →ISBN
    • There are smaller marrows, the French courgettes, and the Italian cocozelles, also the 'Vegetable Spaghetti', but these are eaten small and immature, often cooked by recipes of the 'wrap in bacon, place a clove of garlic in the middle, soak in wine overnight then fry in butter and season with red...2011, Lawrence D. Hills, Grow Your Own Fruit and Vegetables, →ISBN

Forms of cocozelle

pluralcocozelles

Questions about cocozelle

What does cocozelle mean?
Cocozelle means a variety of squash with dark green skin mottled by lighter green or yellow.
What part of speech is cocozelle?
Cocozelle is a noun.
What is the plural of cocozelle?
The plural of cocozelle is cocozelles.

Words near cocozelle in the dictionary

  1. cocovores
  2. cocowood
  3. cocowoods
  4. cocoyam
  5. cocoyams
  6. cocozelle
  7. cocozelles
  8. Cocoșul
  9. COCP
  10. COCPs
  11. cocquette

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