Gherkin vs. Cornichon: What's the Difference?

A small cucumber, especially one used for pickling.

A crisp, sour pickle made from a small cucumber.

A pickle made from such a fruit.

A dill-pickled gherkin cucumber.

A vine (Cucumis anguria) native to Africa and widely cultivated especially in the West Indies, having prickly fruit often harvested when immature for pickling.

A French-style pickled miniature cucumber.

The fruit of this plant.

A small cucumber, often pickled whole.

(slang) The penis.

A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.

See Sea gherkin.

Any of various small cucumbers pickled whole

Small prickly cucumber