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1. (n.) pumpkin
a large, edible, orange-yellow fruit borne by a coarse decumbent vine, Cucurbita pepo, of the gourd family.
2. pumpkin
the similar fruit of any of several related species, as C. maxima or
C. moschata.
3. pumpkin
a plant bearing such fruit.
Etymology: (1640–50; alter. of pumpion, pompon < MF, alter. of popon melon, earlier pepon < L pepōnem, acc. of pepō < Gk pépōn kind of melon)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) pumpkin, pumpkin vine, autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo
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
2. (noun) pumpkin
usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn
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1. (noun) pumpkin
a large round orange vegetable with thick skin
pumpkin soup
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) pumpkin
a well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion
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Sense: a kind of large, round, thick-skinned yellow fruit, eaten as food.
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 Afrikaans: pampoen |
 Arabic: قَرْعَه يَقْطينِيَّه |
 Bulgarian: тиква |
 Brazilian: abóbora |
 Czech: tykev |
 German: der Kürbis |
 Danish: græskar |
 Greek: κολοκύθα |
 Spanish: calabaza |
 Estonian: kõrvits |
 Farsi: کدو تنبل |
 Finnish: kurpitsa |
 French: citrouille |
 Hebrew: דְלָעָת |
 Hindi: कद्दू |
 Hungarian: tök |
 Indonesian: labu |
 Icelandic: grasker |
 Italian: zucca |
 Japanese: かぼちゃ |
 Korean: 호박 |
 Lithuanian: moliūgas |
 Latvian: ķirbis |
 Malay: buah labu |
 Dutch: pompoen |
 Norwegian: gresskar |
 Polish: dynia |
 Persian: کدو تنبل |
 Pashto: كډو |
 Portuguese: abóbora |
 Romanian: dovleac |
 Russian: тыква |
 Slovak: tekvica |
 Slovenian: buča |
 Serbian: bundeva |
 Swedish: pumpa |
 Thai: ฟักทอง |
 Turkish: bal kabağı |
 Taiwanese: 南瓜 |
 Ukrainian: гарбуз |
 Urdu: لوکي، کدو |
 Vietnamese: bí ngô |
 Chinese: 南瓜 |
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