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WILD PUMPKIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wild pumpkin mean?
• 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.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
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; prairie gourd vine; wild pumpkin
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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