a. A tendril-bearing, climbing or sprawling annual plant (Cucumis sativus) widely cultivated for its edible cylindrical fruit that has a green rind and crisp white flesh.
b. The fruit of this plant, harvested when immature and eaten fresh or pickled.
2. Any of several related or similar plants, such as the bur cucumber or the squirting cucumber.
1. a creeping plant, Cucumis sativus, of the gourd family, occurring in many cultivated forms.
2. the edible fleshy green-skinned fruit of this plant, of a cylindrical shape with rounded ends.
You always look as cool as a cucumber, Anne, dearie.
I tell you," cried the American in the utmost excitement, "I was as cool as a cucumber.
Happy horticulturist Nicholas Walker was trying to keep as cool as a cucumber as he bid for national honours in a gardening competition.