Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A spiny Andean shrub (Solanum muricatum) in the nightshade family, having violet or blue flowers and edible purple-streaked fruit with fragrant yellow flesh.
  • noun The fruit of this plant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Spain and in countries settled by the Spanish, the cucumber, Cucumis sativus.
  • noun In Peru and Central America, a cultivated plant, Solanum muricatum, which bears fruit resembling a melon or a papaw, used extensively in Peru as a vegetable but rather insipid and inferior to a melon in flavor.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[American Spanish, from Spanish, cucumber, from Latin pepō, melon; see pepo.]

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  • pepino: Spanish for cucumber.

    December 10, 2006