| 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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