PUMPKIN
Dictionary entry overview: What does pumpkin mean?
• PUMPKIN (noun)
The noun PUMPKIN has 2 senses:
1. 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
2. usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn
Familiarity information: PUMPKIN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• PUMPKIN (noun)
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
autumn pumpkin; Cucurbita pepo; pumpkin; pumpkin vine
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)
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...):
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)
