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CUCUMBER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons
Synonyms:
cucumber; cuke
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("cucumber" is a kind of...):
veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cucumber"):
gherkin (small prickly cucumber)
Holonyms ("cucumber" is a part of...):
cucumber; cucumber vine; Cucumis sativus (a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit
Synonyms:
cucumber; cucumber vine; Cucumis sativus
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cucumber" is a kind of...):
melon; melon vine (any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers)
Meronyms (parts of "cucumber"):
cucumber; cuke (cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons)
Holonyms ("cucumber" is a member of...):
Cucumis; genus Cucumis (cucumbers; muskmelons)