[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

cucumber \cu"cumber\ k?`k?m-b?r, formerly kou"k?m-b?r, n.
   oe. cucumer, cocumber, cucumber, fr. l. cucmis,
   gen.cucumeris; cf. of. cocombre,f. concombre. bot.
   a creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the
   genus cucumis, esp. cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of
   which is eaten either fresh or picked. also, similar plants
   or fruits of several other genera. see below.
   1913 webster

   bitter cucumber bot., the citrullus colocynthis syn.
      cucumis colocynthis. see colocynth.

   cucumber beetle. zool.
   a a small, black flea-beetle crepidodera cucumeris,
       which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon
       vines.
   b the squash beetle.

   cucumber tree.
   a a large ornamental or shade tree of the genus magnolia
       magnolia 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.

   jamaica cucumber, jerusalem cucumber, the prickly-fruited
      gherkin cucumis anguria.

   snake cucumber, a species cucumis flexuosus remarkable
      for its long, curiously-shaped fruit.

   squirting cucumber, 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.

   star cucumber, a climbing weed sicyos angulatus with
      prickly fruit.
      1913 webster
see also:
cucumis cucumis sativus bitter cucumber citrullus colocynthis cucumis colocynthis colocynth 
cucumber beetle. crepidodera cucumeris cucumber tree magnolia magnolia acuminata 
averrhoa bilimbi jamaica cucumber jerusalem cucumber cucumis anguria snake cucumber 
cucumis flexuosus squirting cucumber ecbalium elaterium elaterium star cucumber 
sicyos angulatus 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

colocynth \col"ocynth\, n. l. colocynthis, gr. ?. cf.
   coloquintida. med.
   the light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber
   citrullus colocynthis, or cucumis colocynthis, an
   asiatic plant allied to the watermelon; coloquintida. it
   comes in white balls, is intensely bitter, and a powerful
   cathartic. called also bitter apple, bitter cucumber,
   bitter gourd.
   1913 webster
see also:
coloquintida citrullus colocynthis cucumis colocynthis bitter apple bitter cucumber bitter gourd 

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