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    CUCURBITA PEPO

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    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 squashesplay

    Synonyms:

    autumn pumpkin; Cucurbita pepo; pumpkin; pumpkin vine

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Cucurbita pepo" is a kind of...):

    squash; squash vine (any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits)

    Meronyms (parts of "Cucurbita pepo"):

    pumpkin (usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn)

    pumpkin seed (the edible seed of a pumpkin)

    Holonyms ("Cucurbita pepo" is a member of...):

    Cucurbita; genus Cucurbita (type genus of the Cucurbitaceae)

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