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CUCUMBER

Cucumber is the fruit of Cucumissativus, or the plant itself, belonging to the Cucurbitaceae or gourd order, and supposed to have been originally imported into Europe from the Levant. Though grown in England in the 14th century, it did not become generally used until after the reign of Henry VIII. Cucumber is an annual with rough trailing stems, large angular leaves, and yellow male and female flowers set in the axils of the leaf-stalks. Other species of the cucumber genus are Cucumis Melo, the common melon, and the water melon, Cucumis Citrullus.
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