pumpkin

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English [edit]

pumpkins

Alternative forms [edit]

  • (US, term of endearment): punkin

Etymology [edit]

From Middle French pompon, from Latin pepō, from Ancient Greek πέπων (pepōn, “large melon”), from πέπων (pepōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (peptō, “ripen”).

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Noun [edit]

pumpkin (plural pumpkins)

  1. A domesticated plant, Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
  2. The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
    • 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz, [1]:
      There were pumpkins in Mombi’s corn-fields, lying golden red among the rows of green stalks; and these had been planted and carefully tended that the four-horned cow might eat of them in the winter time.
  3. The color of the fruit of the pumpkin plant.
    pumpkin colour:    
  4. (Australia) Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita; known in the US as winter squash.
  5. (US) A term of endearment for someone small and cute.

Translations [edit]

plant
fruit of this plant
color
term of endearment
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