Etymology

cucumiform

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Today it means: Shaped like a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and possibly curved. Full definition →

Latin cucumis
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  1. Latin · derived fromcucumis“cucumber”
  2. English todaycucumiform

First attested in a glossary in 1826, in a fragment in 1838, and in a grammatical sentence in 1892; formed by the suffixation of cucumi-, the short i-stem of the Latin cucumis (“cucumber”), with the English -form; compare the earlier New Latin cucumeriformis (1703), cucumiformis (1791) and French cucumeriforme (1777), cucumiforme (1804).

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