NOUN | plant | 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 |
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food | pumpkin | usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn |
Sounds | pah'mkihn; pah'mpkihn | |
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Rhymes | Adrenalin ... zeppelin / Zeppelin: 223 rhymes with ihn... |
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 vine, autumn pumpkin, 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 |
Meaning | usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn. | |
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Part of | 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 |
Broader | vegetable, veggie, veg | edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant |
Spanish | calabaza | |
Catalan | carbassa |
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