Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pumpkin"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pumpkin \Pump"kin\, n. [For older pompion, pompon, OF. pompon,
L. pepo, peponis, Gr. ?, properly, cooked by the sun, ripe,
mellow; -- so called because not eaten till ripe. Cf. {Cook},
n.] (Bot.)
A well-known trailing plant ({Cucurbita pepo}) and its fruit,
-- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.
{Pumpkin seed}.
(a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin.
(b) (Zo["o]l.) The common pondfish.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
pumpkin
n 1: a coarse vine widely cultivated for its non-keeping 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: {pumpkin
vine}, {autumn pumpkin}, {Cucurbita pepo}]
2: usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash
family maturing in late summer or early autumn
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