cucumis.
cucumber (plant/fruit); kind of marine animal (sea cucumber?); cucumber;
Meaning & usage
cucumber, melon: any variety of the species Cucumis melo (true melons) Cucumis melo var. flexuosus: the preferred type in Roman Italy, today known as the Armenian cucumber, snake melon or vegetable melon
cucumber, melon: any variety of the species Cucumis melo (true melons) any other variety of Cucumis melo
Citrullus lanatus: watermelon
Ecballium elaterium: squirting cucumber (usually with an epithet like anguīnus or errāticus)
sea cucumber
Cucumis sativus: garden cucumber
Where this word comes from
A wanderwort likely ultimately from Sumerian 𒄾 (ukuš₂, “cucumber”) or an unidentified pre-Indo-European Mediterranean substrate language; see Arabic قِثَّاء (qiṯṯāʔ, “snake melon”), as well as Ancient Greek σῐκῠ́ᾱ (sĭkŭ́ā, “bottle gourd”). Compare especially Ancient Greek κύκυον (kúkuon), κυκύϊζα (kukúïza, “a type of sweet round gourd”).
dative/ablative plural of cucuma (“kettle”)
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