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pumpkin

[ puhmp-kin, puhng-kin ]

noun

  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.


pumpkin

/ ˈpʌmpkɪn /

noun

  1. any of several creeping cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Cucurbita, esp C. pepo of North America and C. maxima of Europe
    1. the large round fruit of any of these plants, which has a thick orange rind, pulpy flesh, and numerous seeds
    2. ( as modifier )

      pumpkin pie

  2. often capital a term of endearment


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pumpkin1

1640–50; alteration of pumpion ( -kin ), variant of pompon < Middle French, nasalized variant of popon melon, earlier pepon < Latin pepōn- (stem of pepō ) < Greek pépōn kind of melon

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pumpkin1

C17: from earlier pumpion, from Old French pompon, from Latin pepo, from Greek pepōn, from pepōn ripe, from peptein to ripen

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Example Sentences

Finally, Deborah Racicot of Narcissa prepares mouth-watering (and non-basic) pumpkin crepes with warm sage cinnamon en glaze.

On Pumpkin Fest weekend, they did things a little differently.

Riots broke out both after last year's pumpkin festival and after the Red Sox World Series win last year.

He joked, as he split open pumpkin seeds with his teeth between puffs on a smoke.

The pumpkin, when he produced it, was the size of an orange—but still a pumpkin.

It wasn't long before she surprised the object of her search in the act of eating a fat grub beside a pumpkin.

And he decided, after thinking deeply for some time, that there could not possibly be a bee inside the pumpkin.

That there fellow was the sweetest cuttin' man I ever did cut in all my life—he was jest like a ripe pumpkin.'

“Why, but the good little pumpkin was eaten up, too,” said the boy.

The question was, How can a pumpkin vine climb a fence, anyway?

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