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cu·cum·ber

(kyo͞o′kŭm′bər)

a. A tendril-bearing, climbing or sprawling annual plant (Cucumis sativus) widely cultivated for its edible cylindrical fruit that has a green rind and crisp white flesh.

b. The fruit of this plant, harvested when immature and eaten fresh or pickled.

2. Any of several related or similar plants, such as the bur cucumber or the squirting cucumber.

[Middle English cucomer, from Old French coucombre, from Latin cucumis, cucumer-.]

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cucumber

(ˈkjuːˌkʌmbə)

1. (Plants) a creeping cucurbitaceous plant, Cucumis sativus, cultivated in many forms for its edible fruit. Compare squirting cucumber

2. (Plants) the cylindrical fruit of this plant, which has hard thin green rind and white crisp flesh

3. (Plants) any of various similar or related plants or their fruits

4. cool as a cucumber very calm; self-possessed

[C14: from Latin cucumis, of unknown origin]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

cu•cum•ber

(ˈkyu kʌm bər)

n.

1. a creeping plant, Cucumis sativus, of the gourd family, occurring in many cultivated forms.

2. the edible fleshy green-skinned fruit of this plant, of a cylindrical shape with rounded ends.

[1350–1400; Middle English < Anglo-French, Old French co(u)combre < Latin cucumerem, acc. of cucumis]

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Noun	1.	cucumber - a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus cuke, cucumber - cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons melon vine, melon - any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers Cucumis, genus Cucumis - cucumbers; muskmelons
	2.	cucumber - cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons cuke veg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant gherkin - small prickly cucumber cucumber, cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus - a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit

Translations

خِيَارخْيارخیار

okurka

agurk

kukumo

kurkku

krastavac

uborka

gúrkaagúrka

cetriolo

キュウリ

오이

agurkas

gurķis

uhorka

kumara

gurka

แตงกวา

salatalık hıyar

огірок

quả dưa chuột

黄瓜

cucumber

[ˈkjuːkʌmbəʳ] N → pepino m
see also cool A5

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

cucumber

[ˈkjuːkʌmbə^r]

n (= vegetable) → concombre m
to be cool as a cucumber, to be as cool as a cucumber → faire preuve d'un calme olympien

modif [sandwich] → au concombre; [salad] → de concombre

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

cucumber

n → (Salat)gurke f; as cool as a cucumber → seelenruhig

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

cucumber

[ˈkjuːkʌmbəʳ] n → cetriolo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

cucumber

(ˈkjuːkambə) noun

a type of creeping plant with long green edible fruit, often used in salads etc.

cucumber

→ خِيَار okurka agurk Gurke αγγούρι pepino kurkku concombre krastavac cetriolo キュウリ 오이 komkommer agurk ogórek pepino огурец gurka แตงกวา salatalık quả dưa chuột 黄瓜

cucumber

, cowcumber

n. pepino, pepinillo.

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"You always look as cool as a cucumber, Anne, dearie.

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"I tell you," cried the American in the utmost excitement, "I was as cool as a cucumber."

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That day the floor was covered with garden things, drying for winter; corn and beans and fat yellow cucumbers. There were no screens or window-blinds in the house, and all the doors and windows stood wide open, letting in flies and sunshine alike.

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He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.