{Bitter cucumber} (Bot.), the {Citrullus or Cucumis
Colocynthis}. See {Colocynth}.
{Cucumber beetle.} (Zo["o]l.)
(a) A small, black flea-beetle ({Crepidodera cucumeris}),
which destroys the leaves of cucumber, squash, and melon
vines.
(b) The squash beetle.
{Cucumber tree}.
(a) A large ornamental or shade tree of the genus {Magnolia}
{(M. acuminata)}, so called from a slight resemblance of
its young fruit to a small cucumber.
(b) An East Indian plant ({Averrhoa Bilimbi}) which produces
the fruit known as bilimbi.
{Jamaica cucumber}, {Jerusalem cucumber}, the prickly-fruited
gherkin ({Cucumis Anguria}).
{Snake cucumber}, a species ({Cucumis flexuosus}) remarkable
for its long, curiously-shaped fruit.
{Squirting cucumber}, a plant ({Ecbalium Elaterium}) whose
small oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe
and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force
through the opening thus made. See {Elaterium}.
{Star cucumber}, a climbing weed ({Sicyos angulatus}) with
prickly fruit.