Cucumber

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cucumber \Cu"cum*ber\ (k?`k?m-b?r, formerly kou"k?m-b?r), n.
     [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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Bitter cucumber} (Bot.), the {Citrullus Colocynthis} syn.
        {Cucumis Colocynthis}. See {Colocynth}.
  
     {Cucumber beetle.} (Zool.)
     (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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cucumber
       n 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}]