pumpkin

1. 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

   Synonymspumpkin vineautumn pumpkinCucurbita pepo

   Broadersquash

   Part ofCucurbita

   Partspumpkin seed
2. 2.

   usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn

   Broadervegetable

Other forms of pumpkin

plural

pumpkins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pumpkin

What does pumpkin mean?

pumpkin means "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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pumpkin?

pumpkin has 2 syllables: pump-kin. The stress falls on "pump". In IPA it is /ˈpʌmpkɪn/.

What is another word for pumpkin?

Close synonyms include pumpkin vine, autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pumpkin a common word?

pumpkin is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.