A melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit.
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Examples for "cucumber"
Examples for "cucumber"
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She said talk of cucumber sandwiches and cakes were not code words.
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He knows the best restaurants for sea cucumber in all of Miami!
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Today it is working once more, watering Abosh's melon and cucumber crops.
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But cucumber is available year-round, as long as it's in pickled form.
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Larry is something of an aficionado when it comes to sea cucumber.
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Here we report the draft genome sequence of Cucumis sativus var.
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In the present work, a chromosome painting method for single-copy gene pools in Cucumis sativus was successfully developed.
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I may add that in one variety of the cucumber ( Cucumis sativus) the fruit regularly contains five carpels instead of three.
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He walked a little farther and came upon their consolidated shadow of love under the wild- cucumber vine which wreathed over the trellis-hood of the door.
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Sweet potato, melon, squash, and cucumber vines are examples of such plants.
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Native- cucumber vines and other creepers partially closed in the older verandas.
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Yeager sat beneath the wild cucumber vines pleating a horsehair hatband for Daisy Ellington.
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Uncle Pennywait's wife was out among the cucumber vines now.
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The trailing wild cucumber vines tempered the blaze of sunlight and left the atmosphere of the veranda cool.
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The cucumber vines are induced to climb the heavy strings so as to economize bench space]
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Kilmeny, sitting beside her in the deep shadows cast by the wild cucumber vines, became aware that she was weeping silently.
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He glanced toward the door and the one little window where wild cucumber vines were thickly matted, and Bud interpreted his glance.
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There is not a trace to be seen of the melon or cucumber vines, or squashes, or of the beans towards the lane.