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WILD PUMPKIN

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• WILD PUMPKIN (noun)
The noun WILD PUMPKIN has 1 sense:

1. perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit

Familiarity information: WILD PUMPKIN used as a noun is very rare.

• WILD PUMPKIN (noun)

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Meaning:

Perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

buffalo gourd; calabazilla; Cucurbita foetidissima; Missouri gourd; prairie gourd vine; wild pumpkin; prairie gourd

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)

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Useful links:
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Definition of genus Cucurbita
Pronunciation of prairie gourd
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