Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like a cucumber; cylindrical and tapering toward the ends, and either straight or curved.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Shaped like a
cucumber ; having the form of acylinder tapered androunded at the ends, and possiblycurved .
Etymologies
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First attested in a glossary in 1826, in a fragment in 1838, and in a grammatical sentence in 1892; formed by the suffixation of cucumi-, the short i-stem of the Latin cucumis ("cucumber"), with the English -form; compare the earlier New Latin cucumeriformis (1703), cucumiformis (1791) and French cucumeriforme (1777), cucumiforme (1804).
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yarb commented on the word cucumiform
"...the fact that that hideously elongated cucumiform bundle of blue nerves and gills below the steaming unselfconscious stomach had sought its pleasure in his wife's body brought him trembling to his feet."
- Lowry, Under the Volcano
June 25, 2011