NOUN | plant | autumn pumpkin, pumpkin, pumpkin vine, Cucurbita pepo | a coarse vine widely cultivated for its large pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and numerous seeds |
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Meaning | 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. | |
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Synonyms | pumpkin, pumpkin vine, Cucurbita pepo | |
Member of | Cucurbita, genus Cucurbita | type genus of the Cucurbitaceae |
Parts | pumpkin | usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn |
pumpkin seed | The edible seed of a pumpkin | |
Broader | squash, squash vine | Any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits |
Spanish | ayote, calabacera, calabaza | |
Catalan | carabassera, carbassera |
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