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UK
/kjˈuːkʌmbɐ/
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[ US /ˈkjukəmbɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈkjukəmbɝ/ ]
NOUN
- cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons
- a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit
How To Use cucumber In A Sentence
- Cabbage, carrot, celery, cucumber, endive and lettuce may be used for raw salad.
- Among the 68 trees to be cut are American elms, sycamores, tulip poplars, a couple of Yoshino cherries, a dogwood, and one cucumber magnolia.
- The easiest way to support vine crops like cucumbers and tomatoes is to tie their stems to polyethylene string running from a support bar attached to ceiling hooks or from a support frame.
- The blue and red boxes indicate the amino acid changes associated with the andromonoecious phenotype in melon and cucumber, respectively. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
- But Walter Mulbry, the USDA microbiologist, also showed that corn and cucumber seedlings could thrive on an organic fertilizer made from the dried-out algae.
- Serve with a simple cucumber and fresh dill salad. Times, Sunday Times
- The book devotes 30 pages to cucurbits, from giant pumpkins through marrows, zucchinis and cucumbers to back-scratching loofahs.
- Cucumbers are more than 90% water and have astringent properties, which help constrict blood vessels.
- Top with strawberry halves then brush the cucumber glaze over the top with a pastry brush. Times, Sunday Times
- This was Gerard's account of the Cucumber, while of the Cucumber Pompion, which was evidently our Vegetable Marrow, and of which he has described and figured the variety which we now call the Custard Marrow, he says, "it maketh a man apt and ready to fall into the disease called the colericke passion, and of some the felonie. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare