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Definition of Cucumber tree

Cucumber tree
Cucumber Cu"cum*ber (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. Bitter cucumber (Bot.), the Citrullus or Cucumis Colocynthis. See Colocynth. Cucumber beetle. (Zo["o]l.) (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 (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. 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.

Meaning of Cucumber tree from wikipedia

- Cu****ber tree (or cu****bertree) is a common name for several unrelated trees and may refer to: Averrhoa bilimbi, native to South-east Asia Dendrosicyos...
- Magnolia a****inata, commonly called the cu****ber tree (often spelled as a single word "cu****bertree"), cu****ber magnolia or blue magnolia, is one of the...
- classified in Yulania is also the American deciduous M. a****inata (cu****ber tree), which has recently attained greater status as the parent responsible...
- common names sausage tree and cu****ber tree refer to the long, sausage-like fruit. Its name in Afrikaans, worsboom, also means sausage tree, and its Arabic...
- Sea cu****bers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea (/ˌhɒləˌθjʊəˈrɔɪdiə, ˌhoʊlə-/ HOL-ə-thyuu-ROY-dee-ə, HOH-lə-). They are benthic marine animals...
- Averrhoa bilimbi (commonly known as bilimbi, cu****ber tree, or tree sorrel) is a fruit-bearing tree of the genus Averrhoa, family Oxalidaceae. It is believed...
- cosmetics. Other endemic plants include the giant succulent tree (Dorstenia gigas), the cu****ber tree (Dendrosicyos socotr****), the rare Socotran pomegranate...
- resembles a cu****ber Cu****ber blessing Cu****ber cake Cu****ber juice Cu****ber raita Cu****ber sandwich Cu****ber soda Cu****ber soup Sea cu****ber, named for...
- cu****ber Cu****ber tree, several unrelated trees Wild cu****ber (disambiguation), several species of plants similar to cu****bers Cu****ber (software), a behavior-driven...
- Mukherjee, Pippa (1983). Common Trees of India. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press for World Wide Fund for Nature. ISBN 978-0195614824....