Cucumber Definition

kyo͝okŭmbər

cucumbers

noun

cucumbers

A trailing annual vine (Cucumis sativus) of the gourd family, grown for its edible fruit.

Webster's New World

The long fruit, with a green rind and firm, white flesh, gathered before fully mature and used in salads or preserved as pickles.

Webster's New World

The fruit of this plant, harvested when immature and eaten fresh or pickled.

American Heritage

Any of several related or similar plants, such as the bur cucumber or the squirting cucumber.

American Heritage

Synonyms:

idiom

cool as a cucumber

Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cucumber

Singular:

cucumber

Plural:

cucumbers

From Old French cocombre (French concombre), from Latin cucumis, whose ablative singular is cucumere. Probably of Pre-Italic origin.

From Wiktionary
Middle English cucomer from Old French coucombre from Latin cucumis cucumer-

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition