noun
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
• Syn: ↑pumpkin, ↑autumn pumpkin, ↑Cucurbita pepo
• Hypernyms: ↑squash, ↑squash vine
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cucurbita, ↑genus Cucurbita
• Part Meronyms: ↑pumpkin, ↑pumpkin seed
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nounsee pumpkin 1b
Useful english dictionary. 2012.