The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 9 letter word COURGETTE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result COURGETTE
- Egg en cocotte, missing company, in 20
- Heading for carrots, one fetching for us cut vegetable
- Chase round to obtain oriental vegetable
- Bottle from which one takes a dry wine ultimately? It’s green
- Vegetable processed to get cure
- Obtain in enclosed space first sign of edible vegetable
- Come in! Go out with oriental vegetable
- Firm desirous feeling oddly to the veg
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The straight part
We know that "vegetable" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case vegetable = courgette.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does COURGETTE mean?
COURGETTE noun- A particular variety of Cucurbita pepo, a small marrow/squash.
- The edible fruit of this marrow/squash.