Library / English Dictionary

PUMPKIN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("pumpkin" is a kind of...):

veg; vegetable; veggie (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)

Holonyms ("pumpkin" is a part of...):

autumn pumpkin; Cucurbita pepo; pumpkin; pumpkin vine (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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

autumn pumpkin; Cucurbita pepo; pumpkin; pumpkin vine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pumpkin" is a kind of...):

squash; squash vine (any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits)

Meronyms (parts of "pumpkin"):

pumpkin (usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn)

pumpkin seed (the edible seed of a pumpkin)

Holonyms ("pumpkin" is a member of...):

Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)

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