pumpkin

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• punkin (US, term of endearment)

Alteration of pompion, pumpion (“pumpkin”) with the diminutive -kin, from Middle French pompon, from Latin pepō (whence English pepo), from Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “large melon”), from πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (péptō, “ripen”).^[1]

The alternative theory that it may be from Massachusett pôhpukun (“grows forth round”) is false.^[2]

• enPR: pŭmpʹkin, IPA^(key): /ˈpʌm(p).kɪn/

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• Hyphenation: pump‧kin
• Rhymes: -ʌmpkɪn, -ʌmkɪn

pumpkin (countable and uncountable, plural pumpkins)

2. A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
3. The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
   • 1904, L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz‎^[1]:

     There were pumpkins in Mombi’s corn-fields, lying golden red among the rows of green stalks; and these had been planted and carefully tended that the four-horned cow might eat of them in the winter time.

4. (uncountable) The color of the fruit of the pumpkin plant.

   pumpkin:  

5. (Australia) Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita; known in the US as winter squash.
6. (US) A term of endearment for someone small and cute.
   • 1991, John Prine, Pat McLaughlin (lyrics and music), “Daddy’s Little Pumpkin”, in The Missing Years (album):

     You must be daddy’s little pumpkin.

• calabash
• calabaza
• gourd
• marrow
• squash