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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
cucumber
n 1: a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest
times for its cylindrical green fruit [syn: {cucumber
vine}, {Cucumis sativus}]
2: cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh
eaten as a vegetable; related to melons [syn: {cuke}]
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