pumpkin
noun/ˈpʌmpkɪn/
/ˈpʌmpkɪn/
[uncountable, countable]- a large round vegetable with thick orange skin. The seeds can be dried and eaten and the soft part inside can be cooked as a vegetable or in sweet pies.
- Pumpkin pie is a traditional American dish served on Thanksgiving.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPumpkin is used before these nouns:- patch
- pie
- spice
- …
Word Originlate 17th cent.: alteration of earlier pumpion, from obsolete French pompon, via Latin from Greek pepōn ‘large melon’ (from pepōn sikuos ‘ripe gourd’).Definitions on the go
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