Definition of "courgette" [courgette]

• Chiefly British A zucchini. (noun)

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• "Google uses this method in a program they wrote called courgette to reduce the size of the patches it sends out for Chrome, but Red Bend the mobile phone software company has a patent on this method and has filed suit against Google."
• "Perhaps I should mention my bugbear is when zucchini are called courgette in English/Italian cookbooks ;"
• "Did you know, btw, that the zucchini we get in England, known as courgette, is nothing like this size and more like a small marrow."