CUKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cuke mean? 

• CUKE (noun)
  The noun CUKE has 1 sense:

1. cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons

  Familiarity information: CUKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CUKE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cylindrical green fruit with thin green rind and white flesh eaten as a vegetable; related to melons

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

cucumber; cuke

Hypernyms ("cuke" is a kind of...):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cuke"):

gherkin (small prickly cucumber)

Holonyms ("cuke" is a part of...):

cucumber; cucumber vine; Cucumis sativus (a melon vine of the genus Cucumis; cultivated from earliest times for its cylindrical green fruit)