Gherkin

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A small cucumber, especially one used for pickling.
  • noun. A pickle made from such a fruit.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A vine (Cucumis anguria) native to Africa and widely cultivated especially in the West Indies, having prickly fruit often harvested when immature for pickling.
  • noun. The fruit of this plant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A small-fruited variety of the cucumber, or simply a young green cucumber of an ordinary variety, used for pickling.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.
  • noun. See Sea gherkin.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A small cucumber, often pickled whole.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any of various small cucumbers pickled whole
  • noun. small prickly cucumber
  • Word Usage
    "FLY ON THE WALL also wins the award for "most divinely picklish use of the word gherkin in all of lit'rature!""
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    cucumber  cuke  pickle  
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