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Pumpkin   /pˈəmpkɪn/  /pˈəmkɪn/   Listen
Pumpkin

noun
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.  Synonyms: autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo, pumpkin vine.
2.
Usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn.



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"Pumpkin" Quotes from Famous Books



... was a holiday season for slaves, and they had everything good you could want to eat. Listen, Child, I am telling you the truth. They even had pumpkin pie. Oh, yes! Santa Claus came to see slave children. Once I got too smart for my own good. Miss Fannie and Miss Ann had told us to go to bed early. They said if we weren't asleep when Santa Claus got there, he would go away and ...
— Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume IV, Georgia Narratives, Part 1 • Works Projects Administration
... thing that will happen to the best cooks once in a while. 'Twas just day before yesterday I blacked a pumpkin pie so the doctor poked his fun at me all the time he was eating it," said the housekeeper, with a tactful disregard for the full truth, which was that a refractory small patient in the office had driven the doctor to require her assistance for a longer ...
— The Second Violin • Grace S. Richmond
... the fence. There was nothing there except a hollowed-out pumpkin, with a few holes cut in it, which someone had left on one of ...
— The Tale of Solomon Owl • Arthur Scott Bailey
... the garden, then, and fetch A pumpkin, large and nice; Go to the pantry shelf, and from The mouse-traps get the mice; Rats you will find in the rat-trap; And, from the watering-pot, Or from under the big, flat garden stone, Six lizards ...
— On the Tree Top • Clara Doty Bates
... kitchen garden and the orchard, stopping in front of every fruit tree and bending over every bed of vegetables. Then she ran and looked down the well and lifted up a frame to see what was underneath it and was lost in the contemplation of a huge pumpkin. She wanted to go along every single garden walk and to take immediate possession of all the things she had been wont to dream of in the old days, when she was a slipshod work-girl on the Paris pavements. The rain redoubled, but she never ...
— Nana, The Miller's Daughter, Captain Burle, Death of Olivier Becaille • Emile Zola


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