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 →

2) The plant it grows on. tree →

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 →
• Cucumbers are mostly water. tree →
• We grew cucumbers in the school garden. tree →
• She stayed as cool as a cucumber in the test. tree →
• Pickles are made from little cucumbers. tree →
• Cucumber sandwiches are popular at tea parties. tree →
• "One is born to that," said the cucumber to itself. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «cucumber» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.