PUMPKIN

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 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)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

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)

 Context examples 

Then it was my turn, and I went through him as if he had been a rotten pumpkin.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An international team from Brazil, Denmark and the UK, discovered that two species of pumpkin toadlets cannot hear the sound of their own calls.

(Tiny Brazilian Frogs Deaf to Own Calls, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

However, an unlucky school-boy aimed a hazel nut directly at my head, which very narrowly missed me; otherwise it came with so much violence, that it would have infallibly knocked out my brains, for it was almost as large as a small pumpkin, but I had the satisfaction to see the young rogue well beaten, and turned out of the room.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Foods high in magnesium include almonds, bananas, beans, broccoli, brown rice, cashews, egg yolk, fish oil, flaxseed, green vegetables, milk, mushrooms, other nuts, oatmeal, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, soybeans, sunflower seeds, sweet corn, tofu, and whole grains (see: Foods, by content of Magnesium, Mg)

(Low Magnesium Levels Make Vitamin D Ineffective, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Pumpkin toadlets, found on the leaf litter of Brazil's Atlantic forest, are among the smallest frogs in the world.

(Tiny Brazilian Frogs Deaf to Own Calls, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Like many brightly-colored tropical frogs, pumpkin toadlets are highly toxic, which may lower the risk of predation when they are calling.

(Tiny Brazilian Frogs Deaf to Own Calls, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)