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cucumiform.

Shaped like a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and possibly curved.

10 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/kjuːˈkjuːmɪfɔːm/Received-Pronunciation
  1. Shaped like a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and possibly curved.

Where this word comes from

First attested in a glossary in 1826, in a fragment in 1838, and in a grammatical sentence in 1892; formed by the suffixation of cucumi-, the short i-stem of the Latin cucumis (“cucumber”), with the English -form; compare the earlier New Latin cucumeriformis (1703), cucumiformis (1791) and French cucumeriforme (1777), cucumiforme (1804).

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