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ˈpumpkin-seed
a. The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin.
b. A fresh-water fish of North America, Lepomis gibbosus, the sun-fish, pond-perch.
c. Applied locally in U.S. to a yacht-built sailing-boat, and to a row-boat having the shape of a pumpkin seed.
1781S. Peters Hist. Connecticut 243 Maize..is planted in hillocks three feet apart, five kernels and two pumkin-seeds in a hillock. 1857Gray First Lessons Bot. (1866) 8 In the pumpkin-seed,..it is less than an eighth of an inch long. 1860Bartlett Dict. Amer., Pumpkin-Seed,..common in fresh-water ponds and lakes. They are so called from their form. In the river St. Lawrence I have seen them from six to eight inches in length. 1862Lowell Biglow P. Poems 1890 II. 243 The bream, Whose on'y business is to head up-stream, (We call 'em punkin-seed). 1888Goode Amer. Fishes 64 The ‘Pumpkin seed’ and the perch are the first trophies of the boy angler. |