cucumber vine
- noun
- /ˈkjuːkʌmbər vaɪn/
:
planta de pepino
- In my garden, the cucumber vine has spread out and is climbing up the trellis.
Examples
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The brutal heat of a Texas summer burns up the tomato plants and shrivels the cucumber vines.
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Tomato plants and cucumber vines hung on in the gardens.
Fiction book (1995) -
We planted several cucumber vines alongside the tomatoes to maximize space in our vegetable patch.
Synonyms
A climbing plant that makes long green cucumbers
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a vine that produces cucumbers' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'cucumber' (the fruit) and 'vine' (a climbing or trailing plant). This noun‑noun compounding follows a common, literal naming pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Cucumber vine shows the literal image: a long green vine that grows and holds the long green cucumber fruits. So it simply means a 'plant' that climbs or spreads and produces cucumbers.
