cucumber
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- noun
- /ˈkjuːkʌmbər/
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pepino
- I'm going to start cutting up some cucumbers and red onions for my salad.
- tomatoes and cucumbers
- peppers and cucumbers
- cucumber sandwiches
First, let's go for the cucumber and cream juice.
- First, let's go for the cucumber and cream juice.
- One apple and half of a cucumber, a little bit of ginger.
- Last week, she left grocery bagged cucumbers at my door.
- And there's little bits of seaweed, cucumber, what else is in here?
- They're, you know, harvesting cucumbers, asparagus, all kinds of different crops.
Examples
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Good heavens, Lane, why are there no cucumber sandwiches?
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Yummy, yummy cucumber sandwich.
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We are going to hand you a cucumber that is cut to your size.
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First, let's go for the cucumber and cream juice.
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One apple and half of a cucumber, a little bit of ginger.
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As he said this, a cucumber dropped, and Anna bent to pick it up.
Fiction book (1993) -
There are three little baby cucumbers on this plant.
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Next I'm going to make some cucumber avocado hand rolls.
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I'm pickling my own cucumbers.
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I'm going to start cutting up some cucumber and red onions for my salad.
Synonyms
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A long green vegetable eaten raw or pickled
Idioms
Compounds
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A soft sea animal with a long body, leathery skin, and tentacles around its mouth
A Mediterranean vine with oblong fruit that bursts to shoot out seeds and juice when ripe
A tree or bush with very large leaves and creamy flowers with purple near their base
A vine with long oval fruit that shoots out seeds and juice when ripe and touched
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Etymology
Cucumber comes from the old Latin word cucumis, which named the same long, green plant. Because cucumis meant this watery fruit, the modern word still makes you think of a cool, crisp 'water-filled' food we eat as a vegetable.