pumpkin

«pumpkin» in Mova's school dictionary: a large, round, orange vegetable (really a fruit) with a… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a pumpkin, pumpkins; pumpkin)

meaning for a pupil

1) A pumpkin is a large, round, orange vegetable (really a fruit) with a thick skin, soft flesh and many seeds inside. tree →

2) Pumpkin is also the food made from it: pumpkin soup, pumpkin pie. tree →

3) «Pumpkin» is a loving name some parents call a child. tree →

sense in the lessons

In autumn pumpkins are carved into jack-o'-lanterns for Halloween; in the USA and Canada pumpkin pie is eaten at Thanksgiving; in Australia and New Zealand pumpkin is a common roast vegetable. In science pumpkins show how a plant grows from a seed into a fruit full of seeds. Phrases: «carve a pumpkin», «pumpkin pie», «pumpkin patch», «pumpkin seeds».

examples

• We carved a scary face into our pumpkin. tree →
• Cinderella's fairy godmother turned a pumpkin into a coach. tree →
• Mum roasted pumpkin with the potatoes. tree →
• We went to a pumpkin patch to pick one. tree →
• A pumpkin has lots of seeds inside. tree →
• Ask an adult to help when you cut a pumpkin; the knife is sharp. tree →
• Goodnight, pumpkin! tree →
• "Run into the garden, and bring me a pumpkin." tree →

note

Countable (a pumpkin) and uncountable (some pumpkin, the food). Botanically a fruit, because it has seeds, but cooked like a vegetable. Use battery lights instead of candles inside pumpkins to stay safe.

In the corpora

• Farmers breed giant pumpkins of over 1,000 kilograms, and the record is over 1,200 kilograms.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pumpkin» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.