Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cucumber

2 senses of cucumber

Sense 1
cucumber, cucumber vine, Cucumis sativus -- (a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit)
       => melon, melon vine -- (any of various fruit of cucurbitaceous vines including: muskmelons; watermelons; cantaloupes; cucumbers)

Sense 2
cucumber, cuke -- (cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons)
       => vegetable, veggie, veg -- (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)