Zucchini vs. Cucumber

The zucchini ( (listen); plural: zucchini or zucchinis), courgette (; plural: courgettes) or baby marrow (Cucurbita pepo) is a summer squash, a vining herbaceous plant whose fruit are harvested when their immature seeds and epicarp (rind) are still soft and edible. It is closely related, but not identical, to the marrow; its fruit may be called marrow when mature.

Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the Cucurbitaceae gourd family that bears usually cylindrical fruits, which are used as vegetables. Considered an annual plant, there are three main varieties of cucumber — slicing, pickling, and burpless/seedless — within which several cultivars have been created.

A variety of summer squash (Cucurbita pepo) having an elongated shape and a smooth, thin, dark green rind.

A tendril-bearing, climbing or sprawling annual plant (Cucumis sativus) widely cultivated for its edible cylindrical fruit that has a green rind and crisp white flesh.

A courgette; a variety of squash, Cucurbita pepo, which bears edible fruit.

The fruit of this plant, harvested when immature and eaten fresh or pickled.

The edible fruit of this variety of squash.

Any of several related or similar plants, such as the bur cucumber or the squirting cucumber.

marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small

A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.

small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green

The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.

A person who is calm and self-possessed.

A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below.

a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit

cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons