Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cucumber.
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- noun A
cucumber
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons
Etymologies
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Examples
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There's a reason the cuke is the star of its own cliché.
Freep.com - RSS 2010
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Coconut milk combines with pineapple and banana in ways that will inspire you to come up with names like coconut delight, mean green fighting machine, or cuke rebuke depending on what you're juicing.
Patricia Rust: Juicing and Me Patricia Rust 2012
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Inside the booze store, it was cool as a cuke, though, and some nice Motown was being pumped in.
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Inside the booze store, it was cool as a cuke, though, and some nice Motown was being pumped in.
You can stretch right up and touch the sky (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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Refrigerate both separately, but wait until the last minute to combine the two and fill the cuke cups.
Daisy’s Holiday Cooking Daisy Martinez 2010
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Leave about ¼ inch of the cuke flesh attached to the sides and bottom of each cup.
Daisy’s Holiday Cooking Daisy Martinez 2010
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Though my Kirby cuke purchase was a good buy, in general, low price is not why you go to these markets.
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This is almost exactly the same family recipe we have for cuke salad that I just blogged about, except that we don't heat the mixture.
A Quartet of Salads for a Choral Gathering aka TBTAM 2008
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Small shards of intensely flavored cuke in sugar and vinegar, almost gherkin-like, with fresh basil.
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Though my Kirby cuke purchase was a good buy, in general, low price is not why you go to these markets.
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