cucumber tree

noun

American deciduous magnolia having large leaves and fruit like a small cucumber

• Syn: ↑Magnolia acuminata

• Hypernyms: ↑magnolia

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noun

1. : any of several American magnolias (especially Magnolia acuminata) having fruit like a small cucumber

2. : tulip tree

3. India : bilimbi

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1. any of several American magnolias, esp. Magnolia acuminata, having ovate leaves, yellowish-green bell-shaped flowers, and dark red, conelike fruit.

2. any of certain other trees, as an East Indian tree of the genus Averrhoa.

[1775-85, Amer.; so called from the resemblance of its fruit to cucumbers]

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cucumber tree noun

1. The bilimbi tree

2. A species of magnolia whose fruit resembles a cucumber (US)

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Main Entry: ↑cucumber

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cucumber tree,

1. any one of several American magnolias whose fruit resembles a small cucumber.

2. an East Indian tree with an acid fruit resembling a small cucumber and used for pickling; bilimbi.