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5 unusual facts about Cucumber


Jeanette Wässelius

In the press, however, she was sometimes caricatured and called "Miss Cucumber" because of her flat figure, which was only more highlighted by the fashion of the Empire silhouette of the time.

Sawyerpuram

In Summer days the climate remains so warm and on other seasons the climate will be cool and windy.This small town is also known for the best cultivation of bananas & Rice because of its red soil and jack fruit, star fruit, Jambul fruit, Pea nut, Cucumber are also cultivated on few places around the town.

Sompura Salat

The community is vegetarian in diet and also avoid eating onions, garlic, white cucumber and lentils.

The Best Bad Thing

It opens in a city, then moves to a rural Cucumber farm, where the majority of the action takes place.

The Busy World of Richard Scarry

However, episodes featuring other anthropomorphic animals, like Couscous catching Pépé le Gangstaire and his dirty rats, Sam and Dudley, Sneef, Cucumbers and Pickles, and etc. have taken place outside of Busytown in other places around the world.


Animal latrine

There is a curious association of Cucumis humifructus ("aardvark cucumber" or "aardvark pumpkin") with latrines of aardvark.

C. echinata

Cucumaria echinata, a sea cucumber species found in the Bay of Bengal

Carapus boraborensis

It is found in the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean and normally lives inside the body cavity of a sea cucumber such as the pineapple sea cucumber (Thelenota ananas) or the leopard sea cucumber (Bohadschia argus).

Two male adult Carapus boraborensis were observed to fight when inside the sea cucumber until one was killed, other fish have been found with bite marks on their tails and one adult was found to have a juvenile silver pearlfish (Encheliophis homei) in its stomach.

Carapus mourlani

During the experimental work, a large sea cucumber, Bohadschia argus, was put in a bucket of relatively cold water which caused 14 Carapus mourlani to emerge, with a further one remaining inside.

Cucurbitales

The genus Dendrosicyos, with the only species being the cucumber tree, is adapted to the arid semidesert island of Socotra.

Downy mildew

Similarly, cucurbit downy mildew (caused by Pseudoperonospora cubensis) is specific to cucurbits (e.g., cantaloupe (Cucumis melo), cucumber (Cucumis sativus), pumpkin, squash, watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) and other members of the Cucurbitaceae/gourd family).

Empoasca decipiens

They have a very broad host plants range, mainly broad bean (Vicia faba), green bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), pea (Pisum sativum), potato (Solanum tuberosum), tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), aubergine (Solanum melongena) and cucumber (Cucumis sativus), as well as sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) and cotton (genus Gossypium).

Encheliophis homei

There is some competition among Encheliophis homei and another closely related fish Carapus boraborensis for "ownership" of the host sea cucumber, and juvenile E. homei have been found among the stomach contents of C. boraborensis.

Golbaengi muchim

It is made with Neverita didyma (a sea snail), dried shredded squid or dried Alaska pollack, vegetables such as sliced cucumber, and shredded scallions, and mixed with a hot and spicy sauce.

HMQS Gayundah

At Scott Reef, on 25 May, Gayundah boarded and detained two Dutch schooners with illegal catches of trepang (sea cucumber) and trochus shell, and escorted them into Broome on 29 May.

Ianthella basta

The sea cucumber Synaptula lamperti is closely associated with the sponge and makes use of certain nutrients exuded by it.

Korean Chinese cuisine

--What exact kind of noodles are these?--> shredded five-spice marinated beef or pork (五香醬肉), cucumber, crab stick, jellyfish, and a fried egg in a cold chicken broth seasoned with soy sauce and various spices.

Mateo Castellanos

This however sparks the wrath of her friends Donald and Jacqueline Stewart (Kenny Ireland and Janine Duvitski), who lure Mateo to their room and sexually assault him with a cucumber.

Pseudoperonospora cubensis

Pseudoperonospora cubensis is a species of water mould known for causing downy mildew on cucurbits such as cantaloupe, cucumber, pumpkin, squash and watermelon.

Whips and Roses

"Cookoo" features elements of the Teaser instrumental "Homeward Strut", and "Flyin' Fingers" contains a segment of "Cucumber Slumber" from the Weather Report album Mysterious Traveller.

Wild cucumber

Armenian cucumber, a melon which when pickled is sold as "pickled wild cucumber" in Middle Eastern markets.


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