Cucurbita pepo
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 • Syn: pumpkin, pumpkin vine, autumn pumpkin • Hypernyms: squash, squash vine • Member Holonyms: Cucurbita, genus Cucurbita • Part Meronyms: pumpkin, pumpkin seed
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