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pump·kin

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–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.

[Origin: 1640–50; alter. of pumpion (see -kin), var. of pompon < MF, nasalized var. of popon melon, earlier pepon < L pepōn- (s. of pepō) < Gk pépōn kind of melon

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pump·kin Audio Help (pŭmp'kĭn, pŭm'-, pŭng'-) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. A coarse trailing vine (Cucurbita pepo) widely cultivated for its fruit.
2. The large pulpy round fruit of this plant, having a thick, orange-yellow rind and numerous seeds.
3. Any of several other vines of the genus Cucurbita, especially C. maxima or C. moschata, bearing large pumpkinlike squashes.
A moderate to strong orange.

[Alteration (influenced by -kin) of obsolete pumpion, from obsolete French pompon, popon, from Old French pepon, from Late Latin pepōn, from Latin, watermelon or gourd, from Greek, ripe, large melon; see pek^w- in Indo-European roots.]

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
pumpkin

1647, alteration of pumpion "melon, pumpkin" (1545), from M.Fr. pompon, from L. peponem (nom. pepo) "melon," from Gk. pepon "melon," probably originally "cooked by the sun, ripe," from peptein "to cook." Pumpkin-pie is recorded from 1654. Pumpkin-head, Amer.Eng. colloquial for "person with hair cut short all around" is recorded from 1781.

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pumpkin
noun
1.	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.	usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source - Share This
pumpkin [ˈpampkin] noun

a kind of large, round, thick-skinned yellow fruit, eaten as food

Arabic:	قَرْعَه يَقْطينِيَّه
Chinese (Simplified):	南瓜
Chinese (Traditional):	南瓜
Czech:	tykev
Danish:	græskar
Dutch:	pompoen
Estonian:	kõrvits
Finnish:	kurpitsa
French:	citrouille
German:	der Kürbis
Greek:	κολοκύθα
Hungarian:	tök
Icelandic:	grasker
Indonesian:	labu
Italian:	zucca

Japanese:	かぼちゃ
Korean:	호박
Latvian:	ķirbis
Lithuanian:	moliūgas
Norwegian:	gresskar
Polish:	dynia
Portuguese (Brazil):	abóbora
Portuguese (Portugal):	abóbora
Romanian:	dovleac
Russian:	тыква
Slovak:	tekvica
Slovenian:	buča
Spanish:	calabaza
Swedish:	pumpa
Turkish:	bal kabağı

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Main Entry: pump·kin
Pronunciation: 'p&m(p)-k&n
Function: noun
: the usually round orange fruit of a vine (Cucurbita pepo) of the gourd family that is widely cultivated as food and is the source of pepo

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pumpkin jargon
A humourous term for the token - the object (notional or real) that gives its possessor (the "pumpking" or the "pumpkineer") exclusive access to something, e.g. applying patches to a master copy of source (for which the pumpkin is called a "patch pumpkin").
Chip Salzenberg wrote:
David Croy once told me once that at a previous job, there was one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups. But instead of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech method to prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin. No one was allowed to make backups unless they had the "backup pumpkin".
(1999-02-23)

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Pumpkin Center, NC (CDP, FIPS 54160) Location: 34.78039 N, 77.36656 W
Population (1990): 2857 (955 housing units)
Area: 5.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Pumpkin

Cook\ (k[oo^]k), n. [AS. c[=o]c, fr. l. cocus, coquus, coquus, fr. coquere to cook; akin to Gr. ?, Skr. pac, and to E. apricot, biscuit, concoct, dyspepsia, precocious. Cf. Pumpkin.]

1. One whose occupation is to prepare food for the table; one who dresses or cooks meat or vegetables for eating.

2. (Zo["o]l.) A fish, the European striped wrasse.

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Pumpkin

Pom"pi*on\, n. [OF. pompon. See Pumpkin.] See Pumpion.

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Pumpkin

Pump"ion\, n. (Bot.) See Pumpkin.

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Pumpkin

Pump"kin\, n. [For older pompion, pompon, OF. pompon, L. pepo, peponis, Gr. ?, properly, cooked by the sun, ripe, mellow; -- so called because not eaten till ripe. Cf. Cook, n.] (Bot.) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.

Pumpkin seed. (a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin. (b) (Zo["o]l.) The common pondfish.

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