pumpkin : Idioms & Phrases

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autumn pumpkin

  • 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
    Cucurbita pepo; autumn pumpkin; pumpkin.
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pumpkin ash

  • noun timber tree of central and southeastern United States having hairy branchlets and a swollen trunk base
    Fraxinus tomentosa.
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pumpkin pie

  • noun pie made of mashed pumpkin and milk and eggs and sugar
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Pumpkin seed

  • noun the edible seed of a pumpkin
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  • . (a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin . (b) (Zoöl.) The common pondfish.
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pumpkin vine

  • 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
    Cucurbita pepo; autumn pumpkin; pumpkin.
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pumpkin-shaped

  • adjective having the equatorial diameter greater than the polar diameter; being flattened at the poles
    oblate.
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wild pumpkin

  • noun perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
    Cucurbita foetidissima; Missouri gourd; calabazilla; buffalo gourd; prairie gourd; prairie gourd vine.
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