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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A crisp, sour pickle made from a small cucumber.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In heraldry, a branch, as of the horns of a stag.

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  • noun A pickled gherkin cucumber

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, little horn, cornichon, diminutive of corne, horn, from Old French; see corner.]

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From the French

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