cucumber : Idioms & Phrases

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Bitter apple, Bitter cucumber, Bitter gourd

  • . (Bot.) See Colocynth.
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Bitter cucumber

  • (Bot.), the Citrullus ∨ Cucumis Colocynthis. SeeColocynth.
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Cucumber beetle.

  • (Zoöl.) (a) A small, black flea-beetle (Crepidodera cucumeris), which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon vines. (b) The squash beetle.
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Cucumber tree

  • noun American deciduous magnolia having large leaves and fruit like a small cucumber
    Magnolia acuminata.
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  • .(a) A large ornamental or shade tree of the genus Magnolia (M. acuminata), so called from a slight resemblance of its young fruit to a small cucumber. (b) An East Indian plant (Averrhoa Bilimbi) which produces the fruit known as bilimbi.
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cucumber vine

  • noun a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit
    Cucumis sativus; cucumber.
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cucumber-shaped

  • adjective satellite shaped like a cucumber
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exploding cucumber

  • noun Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
    touch-me-not; Ecballium elaterium; exploding cucumber.
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Indian cucumber

  • (Bot.), a plant of the genus Medeola (M. Virginica), a common in woods in the United States. The white rootstock has a taste like cucumbers.
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Jamaica cucumber, Jerusalem cucumber

  • the prickly-fruited gherkin (Cucumis Anguria).
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large-leaved cucumber tree

  • noun large deciduous shrub or tree of southeastern United States having huge leaves in dense false whorls and large creamy flowers tinged purple toward the base
    large-leaved magnolia; great-leaved macrophylla; Magnolia macrophylla.
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sea cucumber

  • noun echinoderm having a flexible sausage-shaped body, tentacles surrounding the mouth and tube feet; free-living mud feeders
    holothurian.
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Sea" cu"cum*ber
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  1. (Zoöl.) Any large holothurian, especially one of those belonging to the genus Pentacta, or Cucumaria, as the common American and European species. (P. frondosa).
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Serpent cucumber

  • (Bot.), the long, slender, serpentine fruit of the cucurbitaceous plant Trichosanthes colubrina; also, the plant itself.
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Snake cucumber

  • a species (Cucumis flexuosus) remarkable for its long, curiously-shaped fruit.
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Squirting cucumber

  • noun Mediterranean vine having oblong fruit that when ripe expels its seeds and juice violently when touched
    touch-me-not; Ecballium elaterium; exploding cucumber.
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  • . (Bot.) See Ecballium.
  • a plant (Ecbalium Elaterium) whose small oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium.
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Star cucumber

  • a climbing weed (Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit.
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