Sliced salad ingredient that is technically a fruit (8)

I believe the answer is:

cucumber

(Other definitions for cucumber that I've seen before include "Cylindrical green fruit" , "Cylindrical green salad vegetable" , "Three dn item" , "Long salad vegetable" , "Proverbially cool salad plant" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.

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