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The cucumber ( Cucumis sativus) is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears cylindrical to spherical fruits, which are used as culinary vegetables. [ 1] Considered an annual plant, [ 2] there are three main types of cucumber—slicing, pickling, and seedless —within which several cultivars have been created.
Gherkin is the language that Cucumber uses to define test cases. It is designed to be non-technical and human readable, and collectively describes use cases relating to a software system. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The purpose behind Gherkin's syntax is to promote behavior-driven development practices across an entire development team, including ...
This is a list of plants that have a culinary role as vegetables. "Vegetable" can be used in several senses, including culinary, botanical and legal. This list includes botanical fruits such as pumpkins, and does not include herbs, spices, cereals and most culinary fruits and culinary nuts.
Cucumis – cucumber (C. sativus); various melons and vines. Momordica – bitter melon. Luffa – commonly called 'luffa' or ‘luffa squash'; sometimes spelled loofah. Young fruits may be cooked; when fully ripened, they become fibrous and unpalatable, thus becoming the source of the loofah scrubbing sponge. Cyclanthera – Caigua.
Brown Russian. Burpless 26. Burpless Tasty Green. Bush Crop. Camaro (European) Carmen. China Jade. Cobra. Cool Breeze (India)
Genetically modified crops ( GM crops) are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering methods. Plant genomes can be engineered by physical methods or by use of Agrobacterium for the delivery of sequences hosted in T-DNA binary vectors. In most cases, the aim is to introduce a new trait to the plant ...
This is a list of countries by cucumber and gherkin production from the years 2017 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [1] The estimated total world production for cucumbers in 2022 was 94,718,397 metric tonnes , up 2.3% from 92,613,394 tonnes in 2021. [ 1 ]
Thelenota ananas, a giant sea cucumber from the Indo-Pacific tropics. Sea cucumbers are echinoderms from the class Holothuroidea ( / ˌhɒləˌθjʊəˈrɔɪdiə, ˌhoʊ -/ HOL-ə-thure-OY-dee-ə, HOHL- ). They are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body containing a single, branched gonad. They are found on the sea floor ...