pepita
the edible seed of a pumpkin or squash, used in cooking and often dried or toasted and eaten as a snack food.
Origin of pepita
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a female given name.
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How to use pepita in a sentence
pepita and the other two Indian women, with the wounded muleteers, were taken to another house.
Overland | John William De ForestAll adored him and one, pepita, a little Spanish model, loved him with the love of a dog for its master.
The Woman Gives | Owen Johnson"pepita Ximenez" has enjoyed a wide celebrity, not only in Spain, but in every other Spanish-speaking country.
Pepita Ximenez | Juan ValeraTo-morrow I am to dine at the house of the famous pepita Ximenez, of whom you have doubtless heard.
Pepita Ximenez | Juan ValeraUntil her sixteenth year pepita lived with her mother in very straitened circumstances—bordering, indeed, upon absolute want.
Pepita Ximenez | Juan Valera
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