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ZUCCHINI [4 records]

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Record 1 2006-05-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Food Industries
  • Restaurant Menus
DEF

Food intended to be picked up with the fingers and eaten.

OBS

The term "finger food" is a general term used to refer to chicken fingers, deep-fried zucchini, battered shrimp, etc., as well as other types of food eaten with the fingers.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Menus (Restauration)
DEF

Mets qui [...] se mangent avec les doigts.

OBS

croque-en-doigts : L'équivalent basé sur le terme «croque-en-bouche» relevé dans le Larousse gastronomique, 1984, page 336.

OBS

Pluriel : des amuse-gueules ou des amuse-gueule.

OBS

amuse-gueules (pl.) : Cette graphie, puisée des Rectifications de l'orthographe recommandées par le Conseil supérieur de la langue française, est attestée dans le Petit Robert (2004).

Spanish

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Record 2 1994-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Horticulture
  • Vegetable Crop Production
DEF

A cross between scallop and zucchini, maturing in about 50 days.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Horticulture
  • Production légumière

Spanish

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Record 3 1992-01-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Botany
  • Vegetable Crop Production
DEF

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.

OBS

a summer squash similar to the zucchini...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Botanique
  • Production légumière
CONT

Cucurbita Pepo L. Courges et Pâtissons. Les Courges consommées à l'état jeune, en été, dénommées "Courgettes", appartiennent à ce groupe. Fruits généralement allongés, munis de poils ressemblant à des épines; feuilles lobées et échancrées. [...] Nombreuses variétés horticoles dont : - Courges d'été, à Courgettes : [...] "D'Italie" [...]

OBS

type de courge à fruit très allongé

Spanish

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Record 4 1988-06-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Vegetable Crop Production
CONT

The soft-shell, immature squashes, such as Yellow Crookneck and Zucchini, should be obviously fresh, fairly heavy for size and of characteristic color. Rind should be so tender it is easily punctured with the fingernail. Seeds should be soft and fully edible.... Curved at the neck and larger at the apex than at the base; moderately warted, skin light yellow at early edible stage, turning to deeper color in mature stage; flesh creamy yellow.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Production légumière
OBS

Variété de courge, Cucurbita pepo.

Spanish

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