courgette

noun

1. （深绿皮）密生西葫芦，小胡瓜
   a long vegetable with dark green skin and white flesh

1. (细长且呈深绿色的)小胡瓜
   Courgettes are long thin vegetables with dark green skin.

in AM, use 美国英语用 zucchini

1. She was shaving thin slices off a courgette.
   她正将小胡瓜切成薄片。
2. Lunch: leftover stuffed courgette, tea, large glass of water.
   午餐：吃剩的黄瓜卷，茶，一大杯水。
3. The spire on St Paul's Cathedral, has been given a fruity new look, after the spire was created from roundels of carrot, yellow and green courgette and baby leeks.
   圣保罗大教堂的尖顶也换上了“水果装”，使用的材料包括胡萝卜的圆盘、黄色和绿色小胡瓜以及嫩韭菜。
4. When a woman in Montana was attacked by a black bear, she threw a courgette at it. Photograph: Alamy.
   当一个蒙大拿州女人被一只黑熊攻击，她朝它扔小胡瓜。摄影：阿拉米。
5. If there is food tonight that is fresher, food that has travelled less far before supper, someone must be living on top of their courgette plants and eating them raw.
   如果有今晚这样的食物是新鲜的，少的食物已远远走在晚饭前，一定要有人生活在他们的小胡瓜植株顶部和吃生的。
6. Betty: Because they call it courgette.
   因为它们就叫西葫芦。
7. Whether it's a courgette that resembles a goose, a green pepper masquerading as a frog or Jesus's face appearing on a potato, nature always has a way of putting a smile on our face.
   无论是长得像鹅的西葫芦，伪装成青蛙的青椒，还是出现在土豆上的耶稣脸，自然总是有办法让我们开心。
8. Anyway, dumplings with courgette are also very tasty.
   再说，西葫芦包饺子也很好吃的。

noun

1. small cucumber-shaped vegetable marrow

   Synonym:    zucchini

2. marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small

   Synonym:    zucchini