cucumber means A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 71 out of 100.
cucumber is pronounced /ˈkjuːˌkʌmbə/.
Etymology
From Middle English cucumer, cucumber, from Old French cocombre, ultimately from Latin cucumis, cucumerem (possibly through an Old Occitan intermediate). Probably of Pre-Italic substrate origin. First attested in the late 14c. Displaced native English earthapple (see which for more), which has since acquired other senses.
noun
- A vine in the gourd family, Cucumis sativus.“ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans.”
- The edible fruit of this plant, having a green rind and crisp white flesh.“[…]for it has been a common ſaying of phyſicians in England, that a cucumber ſhould be well ſliced, and dreſſed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.”
- A person who is calm and self-possessed.“The guy's a real cucumber.”