cucumber

B1 Topic:Food & Drink
US /ˈkjuˌkʌmbɚ/ UK /ˈkjuːˌkʌmbə/
noun Freq #12712

Meanings

  1. 1
    noun

    A long green vegetable with a thin skin and crisp watery flesh, often eaten raw in salads.

    She added sliced cucumber to the salad.

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Synonyms
1 noun · a long green vegetable with... cuke
Word family
Forms cucumbers
Derived forms cucumberadecucumberfishcucumberitacucumbertini
Related forms cucumiform

Etymology

From Middle English cucumer, cucumber, from Old French cocombre, ultimately from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (possibly through an Old Occitan intermediate). Probably of Pre-Italic substrate origin.

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