| 单词 | pumpkin |
| 释义 | pumpkin (once / 1947 pages) n A pumpkin is a round, orange type of squash that grows on a plant also called a pumpkin. It’s the raw material for a jack-o’-lantern. Cook one up in a pie or name your precious poodle after it. Pumpkins are most commonly harvested in the fall, and they're often associated with Halloween, when people traditionally hollow them out and carve faces on them. Pumpkin is delicious in sweet and savory foods, and pumpkin pie is a popular Thanksgiving dessert in the US. The word was originally pompone, from the Greek root pepon, "melon," or literally, "cooked by the sun." WORD FAMILYpumpkin: pumpkins USAGE EXAMPLESThere was no giant pumpkin in her opera, nor did the prince find Cinderella's lost shoe, like in more famous versions of the tale. BBC(Dec 30, 2016) Black bass are fair on PBJ colored Snag Proof jigs, pumpkin JDC drop shot worms, and green pumpkin tubes off docks. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) Anna opted to just sit in the car with the doll while her mom selected pumpkins. Washington Times(Dec 25, 2016) 1n 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 Syn|Hyper Cucurbita pepo, autumn pumpkin, pumpkin vine squash, squash vine any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits 2n usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn Hyper veg, vegetable, veggie edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant |
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