cucumber

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.

   ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans.

2. 2
   noun

   The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.

   […]for it has been a common ſaying of phyſicians in England, that a cucumber ſhould be well ſliced, and dreſſed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

3. 3
   noun

   A person who is calm and self-possessed.

   The guy's a real cucumber.

4. 4
   noun

   cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable

5. 5
   noun

   a melon vine of the genus Cucumis

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.