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Definition of Cucumber vine
1. Noun. A melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit.
Terms within: Cucumber, Cuke
Generic synonyms: Melon, Melon Vine
Group relationships: Cucumis, Genus Cucumis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cucumber Vine
Literary usage of Cucumber vine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sessional Papers by Ontario Legislative Assembly (1905)
"The one annual climber that I would recommend for covering a fence quickly and
easily is the cucumber vine. A few seeds of this vine sown in May or June ..."
2. The History of Barbados: Comprising a Geographical and Statistical by Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1848)
"0 East Indies. Snake Cucumber. 233. ——— Dudaim, Linn. 0 Levant. The Apple-shaped
Cucumber. 234. —— Anguria, Linn. 0 Wild cucumber vine, Hughes. ..."
3. The Genesee Farmer (1851)
"They tell a wonderful story of a cucumber vine somewhere beyond the great lakes,
in the last " new settlement," probably ; the seed having been sowed one ..."
4. American Magazine by G Henry Howard Paul (1851)
"... after which he dropped into the hill a dozen cucumber seeds, which be had no
sooner done than a cucumber vine made its ..."
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