pumpkin
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈpʌmpkɪn/
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- What if I cut larger pumpkins, will they have more seeds than smaller pumpkins?
- pumpkin pie
- pumpkin soup
- pumpkin seeds
Why isn't half apple half pumpkin pie a thing?
- Why isn't half apple half pumpkin pie a thing?
- It's like a a pumpkin sauce thing.
- And all of a sudden the pumpkin market is devastated.
- The first thing was this pumpkin bowl or casserole dish.
- But big pumpkins, big pumpkins are really tough to grow.
- They're like little leaves and pumpkins, literally so good.
- OK, next I would put pumpkin spice and poltergeist.
- And now these pumpkins are just the boundaries.
Examples
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Later we'll have some pumpkin pie
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I just come by to bring a whole truckload of pumpkins for your party tonight.
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So mine is a little pumpkin village.
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Do you want pumpkin or apple?
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Tris has prepared us pumpkin soup and fresh.
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So we grow ingredients for pie like pumpkins and wheat.
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You are going straight to bed, pumpkin," she said, with what Tia could tell was forced lightness.
Fiction book (1992) -
For Halloween, we carved a scary face into a large pumpkin and placed it on our porch.
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She made a delicious pumpkin pie using fresh ingredients from the farmer's market.
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During the autumn festival, visitors admired the giant pumpkin displays decorating the park.
Synonyms
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1.6
A large edible fruit from plants like pumpkin or zucchini used as a vegetable
Idioms
Compounds
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6.3
A carved, hollowed pumpkin made to look like a head or a person whose head looks like a pumpkin
- Specialized
A tree that loses its leaves, has a swollen trunk base, and grows in swamps in the United States
- Literature
A monster with a head that looks like a pumpkin that appears in stories or at Halloween
- US
A climbing plant of dry areas that grows small hard green fruits people cannot eat
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Etymology
Pumpkin comes from the old word pompion, which comes from Greek pepon meaning 'large melon', so people first thought of a pumpkin as a big melon. That's why a pumpkin is a large, round fruit often used for food and decoration.