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A zucchini that pays import tax on its own name.
means A long green summer squash, picked young and tender — what the British and French call a zucchini.
from Courgette is French, a diminutive of courge, meaning 'gourd' or 'squash' — so it literally means 'little gourd.' The word travelled into British English from French, while American English took the Italian route instead, borrowing zucchino/zucchini (itself a diminutive of zucca, 'pumpkin'). Same vegetable, two colonial etymologies, one lasting transatlantic argument about what to call it.
- same plant
- Courgette and zucchini are identical, just different names
- actually a fruit
- Botanically a berry, since it grows from a flower
- giant potential
- Left unpicked, it balloons into a marrow
- flower bonus
- Its blossoms are edible and prized in Italian cooking