cucumber
noun
- a trailing annual vine (Cucumis sativus) of the gourd family, grown for its edible fruit
- the long fruit, with a green rind and firm, white flesh, gathered before fully mature and used in salads or preserved as pickles
See cucumber in American Heritage Dictionary 4
cu·cum·ber
nouna. A tendril-bearing, climbing or sprawling annual plant (Cucumis sativus) widely cultivated for its edible cylindrical fruit that has a green rind and crisp white flesh.
b. The fruit of this plant, eaten fresh or pickled.
- Any of several related or similar plants, such as the bur cucumber or the squirting cucumber.
Origin: Middle English cucomer, from Old French coucombre, from Latin cucumis, cucumer-.
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