CUKE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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 ("cuke" 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 "cuke"):

gherkin (small prickly cucumber)

Holonyms ("cuke" 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)