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| cu·cum·ber [ ky kùmbər ] (plural cu·cum·bers or cu·cum·ber) |
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1. fruit used in salads: a long fruit with dark green peel and crisp white watery flesh that is usually eaten raw in salads and sandwiches or pickled
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2. plant with long green fruit: a climbing or trailing annual plant of the gourd family that produces cucumbers. Latin name Cucumis sativus.
See also squirting cucumber
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| [14th century. < Latin cucumer-, by association with Old French cocombre] |
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cool as a cucumber calm and composed, especially under pressure
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