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cu·cum·ber

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–noun

1.	a creeping plant, Cucumis sativus, of the gourd family, occurring in many cultivated forms.

2.	the edible, fleshy fruit of this plant, of a cylindrical shape with rounded ends and having a green, warty skin.

3.	any of various allied or similar plants.

4.	the fruit of any such plant.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME cucumbre < AF, OF co(u)combre < L cucumer-, s. of cucumis; r. ME, OE cucumer < L, as above

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n.

1. 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.
2. 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.

[Middle English cucomer, from Old French coucombre, from Latin cucumis, cucumer-.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
cucumber

c.1384, from O.Fr. cocombre, from L. cucumis (acc. cucumerem), perhaps from a pre-Italic Mediterranean language. Replaced O.E. eorþæppla (pl.), lit. "earth-apples." Cowcumber was common form 17c.-18c., and that pronunciation lingered into 19c. Planted as a garden vegetable by 1609 by Jamestown colonists. Phrase cool as a cucumber (c.1732) embodies ancient folk knowledge confirmed by science in 1970: inside of a field cucumber on a warm day is 20 degrees cooler than the air temperature.

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cucumber
noun
1.	a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit
2.	cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons

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cucumber

see cool as a cucumber.

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cucumber [ˈkjuːkambə] noun

a type of creeping plant with long green edible fruit, often used in salads etc

Arabic:	خْيار
Chinese (Simplified):	黄瓜
Chinese (Traditional):	黃瓜
Czech:	okurka
Danish:	agurk
Dutch:	komkommer
Estonian:	kurk
Finnish:	kurkku
French:	concombre
German:	die Gurke
Greek:	αγγούρι
Hungarian:	uborka
Icelandic:	gúrka
Indonesian:	mentimun
Italian:	cetriolo

Japanese:	きゅうり
Korean:	오이
Latvian:	gurķis
Lithuanian:	agurkas
Norwegian:	agurk
Polish:	ogórek
Portuguese (Brazil):	pepino
Portuguese (Portugal):	pepino
Romanian:	castravete
Russian:	огурец
Slovak:	uhorka
Slovenian:	kumara
Spanish:	pepino
Swedish:	gurka
Turkish:	hıyar, salatalık

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: cu·cum·ber
Pronunciation: 'kyü-(")k&m-b&r
Function: noun
: the fruit of a vine (Cucumis sativus) of the gourdfamily that is cultivated as a garden vegetable and that has diuretic seeds; also : this vine

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Cucumber

Cu"cum*ber\ (k?`k?m-b?r, formerly kou"k?m-b?r), n.[OE. cucumer, cocumber, cucumber, fr. L. cucmis, gen. cucumeris; cf. OF. cocombre,F. concombre.] (Bot.) A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or picked. Also, similar plants or fruits of several other genera. See below.

Bitter cucumber (Bot.), the Citrullus or Cucumis Colocynthis. See Colocynth.

Cucumber beetle. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A small, black flea-beetle (Crepidodera cucumeris), which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon vines. (b) The squash beetle.

Cucumber tree. (a) A large ornamental or shade tree of the genus Magnolia (M. acuminata), so called from a slight resemblance of its young fruit to a small cucumber. (b) An East Indian plant (Averrhoa Bilimbi) which produces the fruit known as bilimbi.

Jamaica cucumber, Jerusalem cucumber, the prickly-fruited gherkin (Cucumis Anguria).

Snake cucumber, a species (Cucumis flexuosus) remarkable for its long, curiously-shaped fruit.

Squirting cucumber, a plant (Ecbalium Elaterium) whose small oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium.

Star cucumber, a climbing weed (Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit.

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