cucumbers
USKYOO-kum-berz/ˈkjuˌkʌmbɚz/UKKYOO-kum-buhz/ˈkjuːˌkʌmbəz/
- 1Plural of cucumber.
The market stall was stacked with fresh cucumbers and ripe tomatoes.
Farmers harvest cucumbers before they grow too large and bitter.
Note
A regular -s plural, used whenever the fruit or the vine is being counted: two cucumbers, a row of cucumbers along the fence. When cucumber is food in the mass, sliced into a salad or chopped into a sandwich, it stays uncountable and takes no -s at all. The plural also covers the informal, figurative use for calm, self-possessed people, who can be counted like anything else.
cucumbers is a form of cucumber
cucumber, noun: The edible green-skinned fruit of the vine Cucumis sativus, with crisp, pale, watery flesh. Full entry
- Forms
- cucumbercucumbers plural
- Spelling
- cucumber → cucumbers: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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