Larry The Cucumber
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Larry The Cucumber
Larry the Cucumber is a computer-animated character in the animated series, ''VeggieTales'', by Big Idea. Larry and co-star, Bob the Tomato, are the frontveggies for the series. Since his first appearance in "Where is God when I'm S-Scared?", Larry has played a role in nearly every one of VeggieTales' episodes, and has more screentime than any other veggie in the series.
Voiced by VeggieTales cofounder, Mike Nawrocki, Larry the Cucumber is arguably the silliest character in the VeggieTales world. He partners with Bob the Tomato, as the wacky sidekick when hosting episodes, and plays numerous and varied roles throughout the series. Larry has also starred in a spinoff role as comical superhero Larry-Boy, in computer-animated and traditionally animated adventures. His most notable role, however, is the host of a short, recurring musical segment entitled "Silly Songs with Larry," in which Larry performs hilarious musical numbers of various style and content matter.
Origin and Evolution
Larry's onscreen debut was in Big Idea's first video, called "Where is God when I'm S-Scared?" He co-hosted with Bob the Tomato, a tradition that would continue until the present day (as of September 2004). In this first episode, he was the source of most of the jokes, including physical gags as well as silly dialogue. The video also introduced "Silly Songs with Larry," in which he wore an oversized cowboy hat and sang "The Water Buffalo Song." The silly song segment, placed between halves of the traditionally half-hour long story, became a very popular staple of VeggieTales entertainment.
Limited technology available to Big Idea's artists was a primary factor for the decision to center the animation around relatively featureless vegetables. It also limited the number of details that could be put in a scene, including the texture of Larry's skin and the number of objects in the background. As a result, the first videos involved relatively simple virtual
Cucumber
Ref: http://www.itis.usda.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=22364 ITIS 22364
The cucumber is the edible fruit of the cucumber plant ''Cucumis sativus'', which belongs to the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, as do melons and squash. The plant has been cultivated for 3000 years and is widely cultivated today. The cucumber plant has large leaves that form a canopy over the fruit. The vine is grown on the ground or on trellises, often in greenhouses.
The fruit, which is a vegetable in the culinary sense, is commonly harvested while still green and is eaten raw or cooked or is made into pickles. Cucumbers have only small amounts of nutrients. Pickles are more nutritious than fresh cucumbers because of the ingredients, especially dill, added during pickling.
Cucumbers are usually green-skinned, roughly cylindrical, elongated, with tapered ends, and may be as large as 30 cm long and 5 cm in diameter. Cucumbers grown to be eaten fresh (called ''slicers'') and those intended for pickling (called ''picklers'') are similar. Slicers grown commercially for the North American market are generally longer, smoother, more uniform in color, and have a tougher skin. Slicers in other countries are smaller and have a thinner, more delicate skin. Picklers are generally shorter and thicker.
A few varieties of cucumber are parthenocarpic, the blossoms creating seedless fruit without pollination. Pollination for these varieties degrades the quality. In the US, these are usually grown in greenhouses, where bees are excluded. In Europe, they are grown outdoors in some regions, and bees are excluded from these areas. Most cuke varieties however, are seeded and require pollination. Thousands of hives of bees are annually carried to cucumber fields just before bloom for the purpose. Symptoms of inadequate pollination include fruit abortion and misshapen fruit.
Traditional varieties produce male blossoms first, then female, in about
Sea Cucumber
Subclass Apodacea
Apodida
Molpadiida
Subclass Aspidochirotacea
Aspidochirotida
Elasipodida
Subclass Dendrochirotacea
Dactylochirotida
Dendrochirotida
The sea cucumber is an echinoderm of the class Holothuroidea, with an elongated body and leathery skin. Mostly found on the sea floor. It is so named because of its cucumber-like shape.
Like all echinoderms, sea cucumbers have an endoskeleton just below the skin.
Sea cucumbers are generally scavengers, feeding on debris in the benthic layer. Their diet consist of plankton and other organic matter found in the sea. One way they might get a supply of food is to position themselves in a current where they can catch food that flow by with their tentacles when they open. Another way is to sift through the bottom sediments using their tentacles.
They have the peculiar adaptation of expelling first sticky threads, perhaps to incapacitate predators, and then their internal organs when startled by a potential predator. These organs can then be regrown.
Sea cucumbers reproduce by releasing sperm and ova into the ocean water. Depending on conditions, one organism can produce thousands of gametes.
Surprising as it may seem, sea cucumbers have inspired musical composition: in the first of his ''Embryons desséchés'' Erik Satie presents the "(desiccated embryo) of a Holothuroidean" and inserts a description of the animal in the score:
:The Holothuroidean crawls across bolders and rocky surfaces.
:This sea-animal purrs like a cat; also, it produces disgusting silky threads.
:Light appears to have an incommodating effect on it.
Sea cucumbers have also inspired thousands of haiku in Japan, where they are called "namako." In haiku, they are usually called "sea slugs," for the sake of the sluggish metaphor, and there is a book with almost 1000 holothurian haiku translated from Japanese titled "Rise, Ye Sea Slugs!" by Robin
Cucumber Castle
''Cucumber Castle'' (1970) is an album by the Bee Gees, produced by Barry Gibb, Maurice Gibb, and Robert Stigwood. It consists of songs from their television special of the same name. ''Cucumber Castle'' is the only Bee Gees album without Robin Gibb, as he had left the group before the album was recorded.
Track listing
#If I Only Had My Mind On Something Else
#I.O.I.O.
#Then You Left Me
#The Lord
#I Was The Child
#I Lay Down And Die
#Sweetheart
#Bury Me Down By The River
#My Thing
#The Chance Of Love
#Turning Tide
#Don't Forget To Remember
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Cucumber Tree
''For the species Averrhoa bilimbi, also known as Cucumber tree, click here.''
The Cucumber tree, ''Magnolia acuminata'', often spelled as a single word "Cucumbertree", is one of the largest magnolias, and one of the cold-hardiest. It is a large forest tree of the northeastern United States and southeasternmost Canada. It is a tree that tends to occur singly as scattered specimens, rather than in groves.
The Cucumber tree is native primarily within the Appalachian belt, including the Allegheny Plateau and Cumberland Plateau, up to western Pennsylvania and New York. There are also numerous disconnected outlying populations through much of the southeastern U.S., and a few small populations in southernmost Ontario.
The leaves are deciduous simple and alternate, oval to oblong, 12-25 cm long and 6-12 cm wide, with smooth margins and downy on the underside. They come in two forms, acuminate at both ends, or moderately cordate at the base (these are usually only formed high in the tree).
Unlike most magnolias, the flowers are not showy. They are typically small, yellow-green, and borne high in the tree in April through June. The name Cucumber tree comes from the unripe fruit, which is green and often shaped like a small cucumber; they mature dark red, 6-8 cm long and 4 cm broad, with the individual carpels splitting open to release the bright red seeds, 10-60 per fruit.
Uses and cultivation
Cucumber trees make excellent shade trees for parks and gardens, though they are not recommended for use as street trees. In cultivation, they typically only grow 15-20m (50-75 feet) tall, although they reach over 30m (100 feet) in forest situations. However, they can become massive, with the national champion in Stark County, Ohio measuring more than ten feet in diameter (although only seventy-nine feet tall). They are tolerant of alkaline soils, but require it to be deep, moist, and well-drained. This tree needs protection
Cucumber Tree
Google hits:
Cucumber tree 120,000
Cucumbertree 2,000
( Talk:Cucumbertree for more discussion)
It should perhaps be noted that searching on google for "cucumber tree" only returns ~3000 hits. i.e. many of the hits when searching for 'cucumber tree' without the quotes are pages which mention both the words cucumber and tree but not one after the other. --Ams80 20:47, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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