Pumpkin
['pʌm(p)kɪn] or ['pʌmpkɪn]
解释:
(noun.) usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn.
(noun.) 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.
校对:塞勒斯特--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.
伯特伦编辑
解释:
n. a plant of the gourd family and its fruit.—Also Pump′ion.
整理:佩吉
例句:
- On the contrary, godmother; my idea is as large now as a pumpkin--and YOU know what a pumpkin is, don't you? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Thoroughly bruise the granate bark and pumpkin-seed, and with the ergot boil in eight ounces of water for fifteen minutes, and strain through a coarse cloth. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- Then it was my turn, and I went through him as if he had been a rotten pumpkin. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
巴拉克编辑