Pumpkin
Pumpkin , noun
[For older pompion, pompon, Old French pompon, Latin pepo, peponis, Greek {not transcribed}, properly, cooked by the sun, ripe, mellow; -- so called because not eaten till ripe. Compare Cook, n.]
(Botany) A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.
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Pumpkin seed (Zoology) , (a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin The common pondfish.