Pumpkin vs Pumpkinseed - What's the difference?
pumpkin | pumpkinseed |
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 seed of a pumpkin.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 10, author=, title=Newcomers, End to End, work=New York Times
, passage=The current menu includes curried goat, rack of lamb with a pumpkinseed crust, and braised short ribs. }}
A North American sunfish; .
As nouns the difference between pumpkin and pumpkinseed
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 pumpkinseed is the seed of a pumpkin.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 .
Derived terms
* pumpkineer * pumpkinification * pumpkinless * pumpkin pie * pumpkinseedSee also
* calabash * calabaza * gourd * marrow * squash English affectionate termspumpkinseed
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