pumpkin
noun
a large, edible, orange-yellow fruit borne by a coarse, decumbent vine, Cucurbita pepo, of the gourd family.
pumpkins
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pluralof pumpkin.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Daisy’s husband Matt, for one, feels torn about the spoopiness that retailers foreground with their shelves of pastel pumpkins and rainbow-hued ghosts, and not just because of the aesthetics.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
However the pumpkins got there, it was an uplifting sight, as was the greening of the mountains and foothills just up the way.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
Breeding two big pumpkins often yields a bigger pumpkin, but not always.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
And I thought of all her favorite things, like she loves pumpkins and she likes summer.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2025
The pumpkins and the squashes were piled in orange and yellow and green heaps in the attic’s corners.
From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder
