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'.
All three species of squashes and pumpkins are native to the Western Hemisphere. C. maxima, represented now by such varieties as Hubbard, Delicious, Marblehead, Boston Marrow, and Turks Turban, apparently originated in northern Argentina near the Andes, or in certain Andean valleys.
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.