[とうじかぼちゃ(冬至南瓜);とうじカボチャ(冬至カボチャ), toujikabocha ( touji kabocha ); touji kabocha ( touji kabocha )] (n) custom of keeping a pumpkin or squash during the winter and eating it on the day of the winter solstice [Add to Longdo]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Pumpkin \Pump"kin\, n. [For older pompion, pompon, OF. pompon,
L. pepo, peponis, Gr. ?, properly, cooked by the sun, ripe,
mellow; -- so called because not eaten till ripe. Cf. {Cook},
n.] (Bot.)
A well-known trailing plant ({Cucurbita pepo}) and its fruit,
-- used for cooking and for feeding stock; a pompion.
[1913 Webster]
{Pumpkin seed}.
(a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin.
(b) (Zool.) The common pondfish.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pumpkin
n 1: 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 [syn: {pumpkin}, {pumpkin vine},
{autumn pumpkin}, {Cucurbita pepo}]
2: usually large pulpy deep-yellow round fruit of the squash
family maturing in late summer or early autumn
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