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courgette

UK/kʊəˈʒɛt/US/kʊɚˈʒɛt/
nounB1+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,989 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: courgettes

A courgette is a long green summer squash. Grill the courgettes, a courgette flower, stuffed courgettes.

Britain uses the French word and America the Italian one, zucchini, for exactly the same vegetable. Leave one a week too long and it becomes a marrow, which is the same plant grown up.

Evan-Amos · Public domain

Definitions of courgette

  1. 1nouncourgetteA long green summer squash.B1+

    “She grated a courgette into the pasta sauce to add some green.”

courgette is a vegetable.

Also accepted in games: zucchini

Where it comes from

French courgette is a diminutive of courge, a marrow, from Latin cucurbita.

  1. Latin

    cucurbita

  2. French

    courgette

  3. English, today

    courgette

Built from

  • courge · French — vegetable marrow, marrow squash

French courgette, diminutive of courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”). Ultimately related to zucchini through Latin cucurbita.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Food & Drink

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courgette in the wild

  • Like courgettes, marrows are oblong, green squash, but marrows have a firm rind and a neutral flavour, making them useful as edible casings for mincemeat and other stuffings.

    Marrow (vegetable)

  • ZYMV affects all cucurbits including pumpkins, squashes, vegetable marrows, courgettes, melons, watermelons, cucumbers, gherkins and various gourds especially zucchinis.

    Zucchini yellow mosaic virus

  • The dish is scrambled eggs with courgette, onion, and occasionally potatoes.

    Zarangollo

  • Stuffed squash, courgette, marrow, mahshi, kousa, or zucchini is a dish common in Egypt, the Levant and the Balkans.

    Stuffed squash

  • Aehobak, also called Korean zucchini or Korean courgette, is an edible, green to yellow-green summer squash.

    Aehobak

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the cucurbita family

gourd

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