| 单词 | armenian cucumber |
| 释义 | > as lemmasArmenian cucumber Armenian cucumber n. a variety of melon, Cucumis melo var. flexuosus, whose green-skinned, very elongated and often curled or bent fruit is deeply ridged lengthwise and has pale, mild-tasting flesh which is used like that of the cucumber.This melon may have originated in Armenia but is more widely cultivated as a vegetable elsewhere, esp. in the Middle East and North America. ΚΠ 1954 Organic Gardening & Farming June 81/1 The Armenian cucumber is fine eating. 2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. 2 This one is also called Armenian cucumber or snake melon, for the way it coils when vines grow on the ground. If you want straight fruits, the vines must be trellised. 2013 J. Nolan From Ground Up x. 127 He would chomp excitedly into raw vegetables still gritty with dirt, and he loved in particular the long, striped, funny-shaped Armenian cucumbers. < as lemmas |
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