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| gher·kin [ gúrkin ] (plural gher·kins) |
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1. small cucumber: a small cucumber. Use: pickling.
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2. prickly fruit: a prickly hard-skinned fruit from a climbing plant. Use: pickling.
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3. tropical climbing plant: a climbing plant of the cucumber family that produces gherkins. Native to: Caribbean. Latin name Cucumis anguria.
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| [Early 17th century. < assumed obsolete Dutch gurkkijn "small cucumber" < gurk "cucumber"] |
