pumpkin

noun

• 1a large rounded orange-yellow fruit with a thick rind, edible flesh, and many seeds.
• informal used as an affectionate term of address, especially to a child.

• 2the plant of the gourd family that produces the pumpkin, having tendrils and large lobed leaves and native to warm regions of America.

  • Genus Cucurbita, family Cucurbitaceae: several species, in particular C. pepo