cucumber tree

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   American deciduous magnolia having large leaves and fruit like a small cucumber

   SynonymsMagnolia acuminata

   Broadermagnolia

Questions about cucumber tree

What does cucumber tree mean?

cucumber tree means "American deciduous magnolia having large leaves and fruit like a small cucumber".

What is another word for cucumber tree?

Close synonyms include Magnolia acuminata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cucumber tree a common word?

cucumber tree is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.