Cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit

Usage examples of cucumber.

It was she who had started sneaking cucumbers into their room, where they had all laughingly practiced the act they so avidly watched.

He bagged some urchins and sea cucumbers, but the crabs were elusive, and when he swam along the edge of the bay with his knife unsheathed to pry off the purple scallops, fierce currents threatened to drag him against the rocks.

Becca managed the julienne soup, but the whole steamed salmon, served with lobster cakes and cucumbers bechamel, was quite another matter.

Drain, season with salt, a few grains of cayenne, and to one cup of the cooked cucumber add a level teaspoon of gelatin dissolved in a spoonful of cold water.

For pumpkins, squashes, cymblins and cucumbers, when it is not particularly desirable to have them early, nothing more is necessary than to prepare the hills with guano.

Terri saw starfish of every color, green sea cucumbers, frilly yellow nudibranch slugs, and a red gumboot chiton.

Tehei brought cucumbers and a young papaia tree burdened with splendid fruit.

They were peckish again, the simple supper long since bolted and regarded in retrospect as a very late afternoon snack composed of uninspiring elements not of their own choosing-tuna wiggle, cucumber slices in vinegar, and brownies, a Becky effort.

She warmed string beans and made a cucumber sandwich instead of pimiento cheese.

He pootled along to a car park a few hundred yards from the gate, went over to an oldish blue Renault, and climbed into the driving seat, cool as a cucumber.

All that day and the next and the one following Mr Taglioni continued his gruesome task while Lockhart cooked and Mr Dodd sat in his shed and stared resentfully at the cucumber frames.

Woven trays of tava bread, roasted peppers, onions, long beans, cabbage, cucumber and beets, bowls of stewed meats, fish, and chicken, as well as platters of boar and venison, were carried by young women from the cook fires to people gathered at various shelters.

He took a cucumber sandwich from the dish Emma offered and his offended feelings were somewhat mollified when she asked.

Peel and slice three small cucumbers, parboil in salted water, drain, and fry in butter with a little sugar.

Shizuka exclaimed when she saw the delicacies of the season, raw sea bream and squid, broiled eel with green perilla and horseradish, pickled cucumbers and salted lotus root, rare black mushrooms and burdock, laid out on the lacquer trays.