pumpkin vine

Questions about pumpkin vine

What does pumpkin vine mean?

pumpkin vine 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".

What is another word for pumpkin vine?

Close synonyms include pumpkin, 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 vine a common word?

pumpkin vine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.