0 a small type of cucumber (= a long, thin, green vegetable) that is often pickled (= preserved in vinegar):
a pickled gherkin
Prominent vein clearing was the first visible symptom followed by silvering of leaves, except in gherkin, which developed faint vein clearing and mild silvering symptoms.
During the war home growers were encouraged to increase their production of gherkins and cucumbers for pickling, which they did very satisfactorily.
Gherkins are not grown on any considerable scale in this country as conditions are unsuitable.
In many languages, the name for the silly season references cucumbers (more precisely: gherkins or pickled cucumbers).
He then spreads it on both sides of a warm sliced organic bread bun, adds thin slices of apple and pickled gherkins.
Common additional ingredients are finely cut gherkins, radishes, parsley or chives.
Rollmops are pickled herring fillets rolled (hence the name) into a cylindrical shape around a piece of pickled gherkin or an onion.
The logo of the tour shows a smiling gherkin on a bicycle.
