cucumber
Trailing annual plant belonging to the gourd family, producing long, green-skinned fruit with crisp, translucent, edible flesh. Small cucumbers, called gherkins, usually the fruit of Cucumis anguria, are often pickled. (Cucumis sativus, family Cucurbitaceae.)
There are about 735 species belonging to the cucumber family.
| The South African C. humifructus is unusual in that it fruits 15–30 cm/6–12 in underground. |
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