cucumber

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In fact the cucumber was almost 7lb heavier than the earlier world record that was set by a fellow British grower, Mark Baggs, in 2005.

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  1. noun A tendril-bearing, climbing or sprawling annual plant (Cucumis sativus) widely cultivated for its edible cylindrical fruit that has a green rind and crisp white flesh.
  2. noun The fruit of this plant, eaten fresh or pickled.
  3. noun Any of several related or similar plants, such as the bur cucumber or the squirting cucumber.

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  • Yesterday's fun was getting started with cucumber, as some of the links below will tell you. —  A Fresh Cup
  • Some think that the cucumber is really a native of India. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • In fact the cucumber was almost 7lb heavier than the earlier world record that was set by a fellow British grower, Mark Baggs, in 2005. —  dailyindia.com News Feed
  • In the mouth it is cool and glassy with herbal, cut grass, cucumber, and green apple flavors. —  Vinography: A Wine Blog
  • Captain "Sully" is cool as a cucumber - of course - but the LaGuardia departure controller has to be commended as well. —  Neptunus Lex
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  1. Middle English cucomer, from Old French coucombre, from Latin cucumis, cucumer-.

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  1. English dial. cowcumber, formerly in good literary use, being the proper modern representative of the Middle English form (cucumber, being a reversion to the L. form); from Middle English cucumber, cucumer, cucumber = Old French cocombre, French eoncombre = Provencal cogombre = Spanish cohombro = Italian cocomero, from Middle Latin cucumer, Latin cucumis (cucumer-), a cucumber.
 

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