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 Pump·kin n.  Bot. A well-known trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo)  and its fruit, -- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.
 Pumpkin seed. (a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin. (b) Zool. The common pondfish.
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 crook·neck n. Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin (Cucurbita pepo) and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The winter crookneck belongs to a distinct species (Cucurbita moschata) and is smooth and often striped. [U. S.]
 Syn: -- crookneck squash.
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 Cucurbita pepo
      n : a coarse vine widely cultivated for its non-keeping large
          pulpy round orange fruit with firm orange skin and
          numerous seeds; subspecies of Cucurbita pepo include the
          summer squashes and a few autumn squashes [syn: pumpkin,
           pumpkin vine, autumn pumpkin]