The word 'cucumber' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it in any context where it is appropriate to describe the vegetable. Example sentence: I added some diced cucumbers to the salad.
Put the sugar, cucumber and raspberries in a shaker and muddle (ie, bash).
My friend Ed and I used to argue for hours about the correct order of construction: sauce, duck, spring onions and cucumber (him); or duck, spring onions and cucumber, sauce (me, clearly right as you don't want the sauce soaking into the pancake).
Add chunks of cucumber, red pepper or trimmed green beans if you want to mix it up.
Luu stops with lettuce, but most people stuff in a few more vegetables: Stein and Brissenden go for beansprouts, Tran and Vu shredded carrot, cucumber and, rather surprisingly, pineapple, and Gourmet carrots.
Meanwhile, wash the cucumber and tomatoes, and scrape the skin from the ginger.
Grab one of the ocean-view sofas and watch the sun go down in style with an incredible cucumber basil martini or the green-chilli-infused kokum special.
Mix soy sauce, chinkiang vinegar, sugar, chilli oil (lots) and a teaspoon of toasted sesame oil to dress raw cucumber, broad beans or western salads.
Our meals were slices of bread, a boiled egg or rotten potato in the morning; soup, tomato and cucumber for dinner.
Bars In town, the pick of the bars includes La Malvaloca (Calle Maria Luisa 20), a cucumber-cool, crowded bar with affordable seafood tapas.
He was shot and badly wounded in March as park officials raided an illegal sea-cucumber fishing camp on one of the islands.The Galapagos archipelago, 900 kilometres (550 miles) out in the Pacific, with its tortoises and iguanas, draws 60,000 tourists a year.
As a member of the European Parliament Mr Sonneborn plans to revive the EU's infamous cucumber-curvature law (scrapped, after much ridicule, in 2009).
