pumpkin
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- (US, term of endearment): punkin
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pumpkin (plural pumpkins)
- A domesticated plant, Cucurbita pepo similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
- The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
- The Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum, [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.
- The Land of Oz, L. Frank Baum, [1]:
- (color/colour) The color of the fruit of the pumpkin plant
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pumpkin colour:
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- (US) A term of endearment for someone small and cute.
- John Prine, Daddy's Little Pumpkin: You must be daddy's little pumpkin
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plant
fruit of this plant
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color
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