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    noun. the small, immature fruit of a variety of cucumber, used in pickling. Also called bur gherkin, gooseberry gourd, West Indian gherkin.

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    While a pickle can be made from a large variety of food items, in US, Canada, and Australia, it is a word used to refer to pickled cucumbers. Gherkin is a term that is used for pickled cucumber in UK and the rest of Europe. Gherkin is made with very small cucumbers (1-3 inches in size).

    Also, where did the word Gherkin come from? Etymology. From a form of Dutch gurk, an archaic variant of augurk (“small pickled cucumber”), from Low German, from Middle Low German agurke, augurke, probably via Slavic (compare Polish ogórek), from Byzantine Greek ?γγούριον (angoúrion, “cucumber”).

    Consequently, what does Gerkin mean?

    Definition of gherkin. 1a : a small prickly fruit used for pickling also : a pickle made from this fruit. b : the slender annual vine (Cucumis anguria) of the gourd family that bears gherkins. 2 : the immature fruit of the cucumber especially when used for pickling.

    How are gherkins made?

    A pickled cucumber (commonly known as a pickle in the United States and Canada, and a gherkin in Britain, Ireland, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand) is a cucumber that has been pickled in a brine, vinegar, or other solution and left to ferment for a period of time, by either immersing the cucumbers in an acidic

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