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- adjective shaped like a cucumber
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Examples
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Near the spill site, researchers have documented a massive die-off of pyrosomes - cucumber-shaped, gelatinous organisms fed on by endangered sea turtles.
Gulf Oil Spill Altering Food Web Scientists Say, Long-Term Impact Unknown 2010
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Near the spill site, researchers have documented a massive die-off of pyrosomes - cucumber-shaped, gelatinous organisms fed on by endangered sea turtles.
Gulf Oil Spill Altering Food Web Scientists Say, Long-Term Impact Unknown 2010
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Just about anything cucumber-shaped that's small enough and easy to clean has been put in a vagina.
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But how much worse it is to be a hungry person where food is so scarce that you "break off a spiny, cucumber-shaped stalk from this succulent plant, feed on its milky center so you will have the energy to set off on a long hunt unencumbered by hunger pangs."
Will hoodia gordonii save us from our sin of gluttony? Ann Althouse 2005
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First there are bananas, the cucumber-shaped fruits which are the food of millions of human beings.
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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Its cucumber-shaped orange fruits ripen at almost all seasons in the perpetual summer of the
From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908
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While the amphiblastic ova of the latter are small and develop like those of the amphibia, the cucumber-shaped ova of the hag are about an inch long, and form a discoid gastrula.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 1 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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Near the spill site, researchers have documented a massive die-off of pyrosomes - cucumber-shaped, gelatinous organisms fed on by endangered sea turtles.
Home By SARA KENNEDY 2010
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Near the spill site, researchers have documented a massive die-off of pyrosomes - cucumber-shaped, gelatinous organisms fed on by endangered sea turtles.
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Near the spill site, researchers have documented a massive die-off of pyrosomes - cucumber-shaped, gelatinous organisms fed on by endangered sea turtles.
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