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WILD PUMPKIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit
Synonyms:
buffalo gourd; calabazilla; Cucurbita foetidissima; Missouri gourd; prairie gourd; prairie gourd vine; wild pumpkin
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("wild pumpkin" is a kind of...):
gourd; gourd vine (any vine of the family Cucurbitaceae that bears fruits with hard rinds)
Meronyms (parts of "wild pumpkin"):
prairie gourd (small hard green-and-white inedible fruit of the prairie gourd plant)
Holonyms ("wild pumpkin" is a member of...):
Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)
