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# cucumber

«cucumber» in Mova's school dictionary: **A long, thin, green vegetable with a cool, watery inside…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a cucumber, cucumbers; cucumber, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A long, thin, green vegetable with a cool, watery inside, eaten raw in salads or sandwiches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cucumber/#m1)

2) The plant it grows on. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cucumber/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science: cucumbers are fruits in plant science because they have seeds, but we use them as vegetables. In everyday life: cucumber sandwiches, salad. Phrase: as cool as a cucumber (very calm). Pickles (gherkins) are small pickled cucumbers.

### examples

- Slice the cucumber for the salad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cucumber/#x1)
- Cucumbers are mostly water. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cucumber/#x2)
- We grew cucumbers in the school garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cucumber/#x3)
- She stayed as cool as a cucumber in the test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cucumber/#x4)
- Pickles are made from little cucumbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cucumber/#x5)
- Cucumber sandwiches are popular at tea parties. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cucumber/#x6)
- "One is born to that," said the cucumber to itself. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cucumber/#x7)

### note

Pronounced KYOO-kum-ber. Countable (a cucumber) or uncountable (some cucumber). In maths problems, «a cucumber cut into slices» can be a division question.

### In the corpora

- [A giant snail rasps through cucumber with a tongue of thousands of tiny teeth.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cucumber» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cucumber/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.