noun, feminine/kuʁʒ/plural: courges
marrow (UK; vegetable), vegetable marrow (UK), marrow squash (US)
Related: courge cireuse, courge de Siam, courgette
Inherited from Old French cohourge, ultimately from Latin cucurbita, perhaps via Vulgar Latin *cucurbica. Doublet of gourde (from the form cohourde).