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snake cucumber
A basket with snake cucumbers, i.e. the immature fruits of a vine with the botanical name Coccinia grandis.
These small, bulbous gourds are green and hard, yet turn soft and red in colour as they ripen. Hence, they are nicknamed scarlet gourds (fig).
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