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Webster 1913 Edition


Pumpkin

Pump′kin

,
Noun.
[For older
pompion
,
pompon
, OF.
pompon
, L.
pepo
,
peponis
, Gr. [GREEK], properly, cooked by the sun, ripe, mellow; – so called because not eaten till ripe. Cf.
Cook
,
Noun.
]
(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)
(Zool.)
The common pondfish.

Webster 1828 Edition


Pumpkin

PUMP'KIN

,
Noun.
A pompion. [This is the common orthography of the word in the United States.]

Definition 2024


pumpkin

pumpkin

English

pumpkins
"seeds of pumpkin"

Alternative forms

  • (US, term of endearment): punkin

Noun

pumpkin (plural pumpkins)

  1. A domesticated plant, in species 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:
      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. (uncountable) 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.

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