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cucumber
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. Bitter cucumber (Bot.), the Citrullus Colocynthis syn. Cucumis Colocynthis. See Colocynth. Cucumber beetle. (Zo["o]l.)
A small, black flea-beetle ( Crepidodera cucumeris), which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon vines.
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The squash beetle. Cucumber tree.
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.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French cocombre (13c., Modern French concombre), from Latin cucumerem (nominative cucumis), perhaps from a pre-Italic Mediterranean language. The Latin word also is the source of Italian cocomero, Spanish cohombro, Portuguese cogombro. Replaced Old English eorþæppla (plural), literally "earth-apples."\n
\nCowcumber was common form 17c.-18c., and that pronunciation lingered into 19c. Planted as a garden vegetable by 1609 by Jamestown colonists. Phrase cool as a cucumber (c.1732) embodies ancient folk knowledge confirmed by science in 1970: inside of a field cucumber on a warm day is 20 degrees cooler than the air temperature.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A vine in the gourd family, ''Cucumis sativus''. 2 The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.
WordNet
n. a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit [syn: cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus]
cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons [syn: cuke]
Wikipedia
Cucumber was a TV show produced by TVOntario in the 1970s, and repeated in the 1980s during TVOntario's daytime kids' programming.
The show's title was an acronym for Children's Underground Club of United Moose and Beaver for Enthusiastic Reporters. It featured a human-sized moose (played in costume by Alex Laurier) and beaver ( Nikki Tilroe) living in a treehouse, and acting as amateur journalists as they present various educational segments on topics such as science or history.
By sending in a story or some artwork to the show (the mailing address was in Toronto), one could become a member of the Cucumber Club.
Some notable people appeared on the show:
- A young John Candy guest starred as a character named Weatherman
- A young Martin Short guest starred as a character named Smokey the Hare
- An interview featured a nine-year-old Jeff Healey.
A cucumber is an edible vegetable.
Cucumber may also refer to:
- Armenian cucumber, an edible vegetable closely related to the common cucumber.
- Cucumber sandwich, a type of sandwich.
- " Cucumber King" (Nyaung-u Sawrahan), a ruler of the kingdom of Pagan in what is now Burma.
- Cucumber, West Virginia, a community in West Virginia
- Cucumber (TV series), a 2015 British television series.
- Cucumber (Canadian TV series), a Canadian children's television series originally broadcast in the 1970s.
- Cucumber Castle, a 1970 album released by the Bee Gees
- Cucumber beetle, a type of beetle.
- Cucumber tree, several unrelated trees.
- Sea cucumber, a type of animal.
- Cucumber (software), a behavior-driven development tool.
- Wild cucumber, several species of plants similar to cucumbers.
- The Cucumbers, a 1980s power pop/new wave band from New Jersey.
- The top level on the 1 to 4 EHS scale developed by the European Association of Urology
Cucumber is a software tool that computer programmers use for testing other software. It runs automated acceptance tests written in a behavior-driven development (BDD) style. Cucumber is written in the Ruby programming language. Cucumber projects are available for other platforms beyond Ruby. Some use Ruby Cucumber with a bridge into the target language (e.g. cuke4php and cuke4lua). Others use the Gherkin parser but implement everything else in the target language. Cucumber allows the execution of feature documentation written in business-facing text. Capybara, which is a part of the Cucumber testing framework, is an example of a web based test automation software. __TOC__
Cucumber is a 2015 British television series created by Russell T Davies and aired on Channel 4. The series focuses on middle-aged Henry Best ( Vincent Franklin), following a disastrous date night with his boyfriend of nine years, Lance Sullivan ( Cyril Nri). Henry's old life shatters, and he embarks on a new life with unfamiliar rules.
In development since 2006, Cucumber was announced along with E4's companion series Banana, and 4oD's web series Tofu in November 2013. The titles of all three shows come from a scientific study into the male erection which divided the erection into a hardness scale consisting of tofu, peeled banana, banana, and cucumber; upon reading the study, Davies remarked that "right there and then, I knew I had my drama".
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.