
Cucurbita maxima
Pumpkin Spice
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Pumpkin (Wiktionary)
English
Alternative forms
- punkin (US, term of endearment)
Etymology
From Middle French pompon, from Latin pepō, from Ancient Greek πέπων (pépōn, “large melon”), from πέπων (pépōn, “ripe”), from πέπτω (péptō, “ripen”). Suffixed with the now obsolete -kin. Doublet of pepo. Or from Wôpanâak pôhpukun (“grows forth
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