pumpkin

pump·kin

P0658100 (pŭmp′kĭn, pŭm′-, pŭng′-)n.1. a. A round, often large squash with coarse, strongly flavored yellow to orange flesh, numerous seeds, and a moderately hard, usually orange rind.b. Any of several plants producing these fruits, especially varieties of the species Cucurbita pepo, and also varieties of C. maxima and C. moschata.2. A moderate to strong orange.

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[Alteration (influenced by -kin) of obsolete pumpion, from obsolete French pompon, popon, from Old French pepon, from Late Latin pepōn, from Latin, watermelon or gourd, from Greek, ripe, large melon; see pek^w- in Indo-European roots.]

pumpkin

(ˈpʌmpkɪn) n1. (Plants) any of several creeping cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Cucurbita, esp C. pepo of North America and C. maxima of Europe2. (Cookery) a. the large round fruit of any of these plants, which has a thick orange rind, pulpy flesh, and numerous seedsb. (as modifier): pumpkin pie. 3. (often capital) chiefly US a term of endearment[C17: from earlier pumpion, from Old French pompon, from Latin pepo, from Greek pepōn, from pepōn ripe, from peptein to ripen]

pump•kin

(ˈpʌmp kɪn or, commonly, ˈpʌŋ kɪn)

n. 1. a large, edible, orange-yellow fruit borne by a coarse decumbent vine, Cucurbita pepo, of the gourd family. 2. the similar fruit of any of several related species, as C. maxima or C. moschata. 3. a plant bearing such fruit. [1640–50; alter. of pumpion, pompon < Middle French, alter. of popon melon, earlier pepon < Latin pepōnem, acc. of pepō < Greek pépōn kind of melon]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pumpkin - a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashesautumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo, pumpkin vinepumpkin - usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumnpumpkin seed - the edible seed of a pumpkinCucurbita, genus Cucurbita - type genus of the Cucurbitaceaesquash, squash vine - any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits
	2.	pumpkin - usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumnveg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plantautumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo, pumpkin, pumpkin vine - a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the summer squashes and a few autumn squashes

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