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PUMPKIN VINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
autumn pumpkin; Cucurbita pepo; pumpkin; pumpkin vine
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("pumpkin vine" is a kind of...):
squash; squash vine (any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits)
Meronyms (parts of "pumpkin vine"):
pumpkin (usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn)
pumpkin seed (the edible seed of a pumpkin)
Holonyms ("pumpkin vine" is a member of...):
Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)