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Gherkin

A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.

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Cucumber 76% connected

A creeping plant, and its fruit, of several species of the genus Cucumis, esp. Cucumis sativus, the unripe fruit of which is eaten either fresh or pi…

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Pickle 76% connected

See Picle.

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Acantha noun · 78% connection

A spine or prickly fin.

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Acanthus noun · 78% connection

A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.

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Aculeated adjective · 78% connection

Having a sharp point; armed with prickles; prickly; aculeate.

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Artichoke noun · 78% connection

The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the…

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Barberry noun · 78% connection

any of numerous plants of the genus Berberis having prickly stems and yellow flowers followed by small red berries

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Beggar's lice noun · 78% connection

Eurasian and North American plants having small prickly nutlets that stick to clothing

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Bramble noun · 78% connection

Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.

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Briar noun · 78% connection

a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves a…

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Brier noun · 78% connection

a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves a…

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Brown root rot fungus noun · 78% connection

fungus causing brown root rot in plants of the pea and potato and cucumber families

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Bullbrier noun · 78% connection

a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves a…

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Burr noun · 78% connection

Any rough or prickly envelope of the seeds of plants, whether a pericarp, a persistent calyx, or an involucre, as of the chestnut and…

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Button snakeroot noun · 78% connection

coarse prickly perennial eryngo with aromatic roots; southeastern United States; often confused with rattlesnake master

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Caper noun · 78% connection

The pungent grayish green flower bud of the European and Oriental caper (Capparis spinosa), much used for pickles.

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Caperberry noun · 78% connection

The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment.

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Chowchow noun · 78% connection

A kind of mixed pickles.

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Colocynth noun · 78% connection

The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…

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Cucumiform adjective · 78% connection

Having the form of a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and either straight or curved.

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