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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:

Nouns denoting plants

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)

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