Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pumpkin
2 senses of pumpkin
Sense 1
pumpkin, pumpkin vine, autumn pumpkin, Cucurbita pepo -- (a coarse vine widely cultivated for its 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)
=> squash, squash vine -- (any of numerous annual trailing plants of the genus Cucurbita grown for their fleshy edible fruits)
Sense 2
pumpkin -- (usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash family maturing in late summer or early autumn)
=> vegetable, veggie, veg -- (edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant)