Muskmelon vs Pumpkin - What's the difference?
muskmelon | pumpkin |
A cantaloupe, a type of melon, (canteloupe group), with sweet orange flesh and a rough skin resembling netting.
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), '' :
As nouns the difference between muskmelon and pumpkin
is that muskmelon is a cantaloupe, a type of melon, subspecies: Cucumis melo subsp. melo (canteloupe group), with sweet orange flesh and a rough skin resembling netting while pumpkin is a domesticated plant, in species Cucurbita pepo, similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon.muskmelon
English
(wikipedia muskmelon)Alternative forms
* musk melonNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (canteloupe)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 .
