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cucumber /ˈkjuːkʌmbə /noun1A long, green-skinned fruit with watery flesh, usually eaten raw in salads or pickled.It was called Jerusalem Salad and it had tomatoes and cucumbers, olive oil, lemon, olives and goat cheese....- No breakfast is complete without a large bowl of finely chopped cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, onions and parsley tossed together and drenched in olive oil, a mainstay of the Israeli kitchen.
- Opt for water-bearing vegetables, such as squash, zucchini, asparagus, leafy green salads, tomatoes and cucumbers.
2The climbing plant of the gourd family which yields cucumbers, native to the Chinese Himalayan region. It is widely cultivated but very rare in the wild.- Cucumis sativus, family Cucurbitaceae.
The peas and other vines won't bother each other so go ahead and plan on planting cucumbers, melons or even squash together on the same trellis....- If seeds begin to mature inside beans, peas, cucumbers, and summer squash, the plants will stop making new fruits.
- Care should be taken to separate as widely as possible, melons, squashes, pumpkins, cucumbers, and others of that family, as any one grown near the other may ruin both as to flavor.
PhrasesOriginLate Middle English: from Old French cocombre, coucombre, from Latin cucumis, cucumer-. |