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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Cucumber \Cu"cum*ber\ (k?'k?m-b?r, formerly kou"k?m-b?r), noun [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 Colocynthis} syn. {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} {(Magnolia 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) 2.0 [wn]:
cucumber
noun
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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