Pumpkin vs Avocado - What's the difference?
pumpkin | avocado |
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), '' :
The large, usually yellowish-green or black, pulpy fruit of the avocado tree.
The avocado tree, , of the laurel family.
A dull yellowish-green colour, the colour of the meat of an avocado.
Of a dull yellowish-green colour.
As nouns the difference between pumpkin and avocado
is that pumpkin is a domesticated plant, in species cucurbita pepo , similar in growth pattern, foliage, flower, and fruit to the squash or melon while avocado is avocado (fruit).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 .