cucumiform

Meaning

Adjective

• Shaped like a cucumber; having the form of a cylinder tapered and rounded at the ends, and possibly curved.

Origin

• First attested in a glossary in 1826, in a fragment in 1838, and in a grammatical sentence in 1892; formed by the suffixation of cucumi-, the short i-stem of the Latin cucumis, with the English -form; compare the earlier New Latin cucumeriformis (1703), cucumiformis (1791) and French cucumeriforme (1777), cucumiforme (1804).