courgette

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow

2. 2
   noun

   marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small

3. 3
   noun

   A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.

4. 4
   noun

   The edible fruit of this marrow/squash.

Etymology

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