wild pumpkin

Questions about wild pumpkin

What does wild pumpkin mean?

wild pumpkin means "perennial vine of dry parts of central and southwestern United States and Mexico having small hard mottled green inedible fruit".

What is another word for wild pumpkin?

Close synonyms include prairie gourd, prairie gourd vine, Missouri gourd, buffalo gourd, calabazilla. 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 wild pumpkin a common word?

wild pumpkin 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.