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cucumber

DEFINITIONS OF: cucumber

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n a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit

Synonyms:
Cucumis sativus, cucumber vine
Type of:
melon, melon vine
any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers

n cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons

Synonyms:
cuke
Types:
gherkin
small prickly cucumber
Type of:
veg, vegetable, veggie
edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant
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