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
Garten offers additional table-setting ideas, including those with pumpkins, candy corn, chocolate-covered caramels and pears.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2025
Andy Corbin runs an ancestry website—for gigantic pumpkins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
The rest of the home is already decked out for Thanksgiving with ceramic pumpkins and strings of orange and gold decorative foliage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2025
But Mack and the boys had taken the crepe paper, the masks, the broomsticks and paper pumpkins, the red, white, and blue bunting, and moved over the lot and across the street to the laboratory.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
