What is the difference between cucurbita and pumpkin?
cucurbita | pumpkin |
Cucurbita has no English definition.
A domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo , similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.
The round yellow or orange fruit of this plant.
* 1904 , , The Marvelous Land of Oz , [http://www.literature.org/authors/baum-l-frank/the-marvelous-land-of-oz/chapter-01.html]:
The color of the fruit of the pumpkin plant.
(Australia) Any of a number of cultivars from the genus Cucurbita''; ''known in the US as winter squash .
(US)
* 1991', (John Prine), Pat McLaughlin, ''Daddy’s Little '''Pumpkin'' (song), '' :
Pumpkin is a hyponym of cucurbita.
Cucurbita is likely misspelled.
Cucurbita has no English definition.
As a noun pumpkin is
a domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.cucurbita
Not English
Cucurbita has no English definition. It may be misspelled.pumpkin
English
(wikipedia pumpkin)Alternative forms
* (sense) punkinNoun
(en noun)- There were pumpkins in Mombi’s corn-fields, lying golden red among the rows of green stalks; and these had been planted and carefully tended that the four-horned cow might eat of them in the winter time.
- You must be daddy’s little pumpkin .