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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.
Definition 2024
pumpkin
pumpkin
English
pumpkins
"seeds of pumpkin"
Alternative forms
- (US, term of endearment): punkin
Noun
pumpkin (plural pumpkins)
- A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
- 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.
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- (uncountable) The color of the fruit of the pumpkin plant.
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pumpkin colour:
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- (Australia) Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita; known in the US as winter squash.
- (US) A term of endearment for someone small and cute.
- 1991, John Prine, Pat McLaughlin (lyrics and music), “Daddy’s Little Pumpkin”, in The Missing Years (album):
- You must be daddy’s little pumpkin.
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fruit of this plant
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color