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Vegetable feature found in unknown ICU configuration (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

zucchini

'vegetable' is the definition.
(zucchini is a kind of vegetable)

'feature found in unknown icu configuration' is the wordplay.
'feature' becomes 'chin' (chin is a kind of feature).
'found in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'unknown' becomes 'z' (algebra).
'configuration' is an anagram indicator.
'z'+'icu'='zicu'
'zicu' anagrammed gives 'zuci'.
'chin' going within 'zuci' is 'ZUCCHINI'.

(Other definitions for zucchini that I've seen before include "Courgette in North America" , "US vegetable" , "American courgette" , "Courgette (US)" , "green" .)

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