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CUKE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons
Synonyms:
cucumber; cuke
Classified under:
Nouns denoting foods and drinks
Hypernyms ("cuke" is a kind of...):
veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cuke"):
gherkin (small prickly cucumber)
Holonyms ("cuke" is a part of...):
cucumber; cucumber vine; Cucumis sativus (a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit)
