Latin Meaning: The name Clarissa is a Latin baby name. In Latin the meaning of the name Clarissa is: The Latinized form of the English Clarice, meaning famous. Famous bearer: Samuel Richardson's 18th century novel 'Clarissa Harlowe'.
The Spanish explorer, Francisco Pizarro, discovered winter squashes in Peru and brought seeds back to an unenthusiastic citizenry in his country. Archeologists uncovered stems, skins, and seeds of summer squashes in the caves of the Tamaulipas Mountains of Mexico dating back between 7,000 and 5,000 BCE.
Zucchini and yellow squash are the most prevalent summer squashes and look and taste very similar. Squashes generally refer to four species of the genus Cucurbita while Zucchini belongs to one of these four geneses, Cucurbita pepo. Therefore, Zucchini is a Summer Squash. Squash, has its ancestry in the Americas.