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noun marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small
noun small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow; typically dark green
originUnadapted borrowing from French courgette, diminutive of courge (“vegetable marrow, marrow squash”). Ultimately related to zucchini through Latin cucurbita.
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