Pumpkin

Morpheme

Pumpkin

Type

free base

Denotation

domesticated plant in the species Cucurbita pepo, typically producing large rounded orange-yellow fruit with a thick rind

Etymology

Early Modern English pompone, pumpion; Middle French pompon; Latin peponem, from pepō; Ancient Greek pépōn, from pésein

Evidence

pumpkin, pumpkineer, pumpkinhead, pumpkinification, pumpkinless, pumpkinlike, pumpkins, pumpkinseed, pumpkiny