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
  • comfortably cool
  • calm and self-possessed
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Cucumber

Noun

Singular:
cucumber
Plural:
cucumbers

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Origin of Cucumber

  • 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

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