NOUN | plant | cucumber, cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus | a melon vine of the genus Cucumis |
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food | cucumber, cuke | cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable |
Sounds | kyuw'kahmber | |
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Rhymes | absorber ... weber / Weber: 72 rhymes with ber... |
Meaning | A melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit. | |
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Synonyms | cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus | |
Member of | Cucumis, genus Cucumis | cucumbers |
Parts | cucumber, cuke | cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable |
Broader | melon, melon vine | Any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including |
Spanish | cucumis sativus, pepino | |
Catalan | cogombre, cucumis sativus, Cucumis sativus |
Meaning | cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons. | |
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Synonym | cuke | |
Part of | cucumber, cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus | A melon vine of the genus Cucumis |
Narrower | gherkin | small prickly cucumber |
Broader | vegetable, veggie, veg | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant |
Spanish | pepino | |
Catalan | cogombre, cogombrera |
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