the large usu round orange or yellow fruit of a usu hairy prickly plant of the gourd family, used as a vegetable cultivated for its large usu round fruit with a deep yellow to orange rind and edible flesh: Cucurbita pepo
a fruit of this plant, used as a vegetable
[alteration of pumpion, modification of French popon, pompon melon, pumpkin, ultimately from Greek pepōn ripened]