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cucumber tree
noun
- any of several American magnolias, especially Magnolia acuminata, having ovate leaves, yellowish-green bell-shaped flowers, and dark red, conelike fruit.
- any of certain other trees, as an East Indian tree of the genus Averrhoa.
cucumber tree
noun
- any of several American trees or shrubs of the genus Magnolia, esp M. acuminata, of E and central North America, having cup-shaped greenish flowers and cucumber-shaped fruits
- an E Asian tree, Averrhoa bilimbi, with edible fruits resembling small cucumbers: family Averrhoaceae See also carambola
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Word History and Origins
Origin of cucumber tree1
An Americanism dating back to 1775–85; so called from the resemblance of its fruit to cucumbers
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Example Sentences
Everywhere the rhododendron was bloom-loaded, and the large-petaled flower of the "cucumber tree" spread its waxen whiteness.
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It was a dugout or canoe, made by hollowing with axe and adz a section of a cucumber tree.
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The seed-pods of the cucumber tree soaked in raw whiskey makes a first-rate bitters for all such like fevers.
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It is known as large-leaved cucumber tree, great-leaved magnolia, large-leaved umbrella tree, and long-leaved magnolia.
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Next to the yellow poplar, the cucumber tree is the most important species of the magnolia family, at least as a source of lumber.
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