Pumpkin
['pʌm(p)kɪn] or ['pʌmpkɪn]
Definition
(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.
Editor: Sallust--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.
Edited by Bertram
Definition
n. a plant of the gourd family and its fruit.—Also Pump′ion.
Checker: Peggy
Examples
- On the contrary, godmother; my idea is as large now as a pumpkin--and YOU know what a pumpkin is, don't you? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- 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. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Then it was my turn, and I went through him as if he had been a rotten pumpkin. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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