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noun. 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.

noun. The fruit of this plant, harvested when immature and eaten fresh or pickled.

noun. Any of several related or similar plants, such as the bur cucumber or the squirting cucumber.

noun. In California, the big-root or man root Micrampelis fabacea, and doubtless other species. Parsons and Buck, Wild Flowers of California.

noun. A common running garden-plant, Cucumis sativus.

noun. The long, fleshy fruit of this plant, eaten as a cooling salad when green, and also used for pickling. (See gherkin). The stem-end is usually very bitter, as is the whole fruit in some uncultivated varieties.

noun. A common name of various plants of other genera.

noun. 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.

noun. the Citrullus Colocynthis syn. Cucumis Colocynthis. See Colocynth.

noun. The squash beetle.

noun. An East Indian plant (Averrhoa Bilimbi) which produces the fruit known as bilimbi.

noun. the prickly-fruited gherkin (Cucumis Anguria).

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

noun. 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.

noun. a climbing weed (Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit.

noun. A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.

noun. The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.

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

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

"In another, a man was cautioned for being “found in possession of an egg with intent to throw”, and in a third a child was arrested for throwing a slice of cucumber from a tuna sandwich at another youngster."

bacteriosis of the cucumber  bitter cucumber  bur cucumber  cool as a cucumber  courgette  

jerusalem cucumber  

cool as a cucumber  exploding cucumber  squirting cucumber  

melon  melon vine  

avocado  basil  beet  cabbage  cauliflower