Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The fruit of any of various related plants, such as the cantaloupe, watermelon, cucumber, squash, pumpkin, and melon, having a hard or leathery rind, fleshy pulp, and numerous flattened seeds.
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- noun A
fruit of plants of thegourd familyCucurbitaceae , possessing a hardrind and producing manyseeds in a single,central ,pulpy chamber. - noun A
plant producing such a fruit.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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All members of the family bear a fruit called a pepo, which is the edible portion that we call the squash, melon, pumpkin or cucumber.
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Most cucur-bits produce a particular form of berry called a pepo, with a protective rind and a mass of storage tissue containing many seeds.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Most cucur-bits produce a particular form of berry called a pepo, with a protective rind and a mass of storage tissue containing many seeds.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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They “believe in a benevolent deity or supernatural power which they identify with the forest”; it is “regarded as the source of pepo life force and of their whole existence.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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They “believe in a benevolent deity or supernatural power which they identify with the forest”; it is “regarded as the source of pepo life force and of their whole existence.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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They “believe in a benevolent deity or supernatural power which they identify with the forest”; it is “regarded as the source of pepo life force and of their whole existence.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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They “believe in a benevolent deity or supernatural power which they identify with the forest”; it is “regarded as the source of pepo life force and of their whole existence.”
In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011
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While most are either maxima, moschata or pepo, the Cushaw is a strain of mixta.
Groundwork: A winter squash named Cushaw Adrian Higgins 2010
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= Cucurbita pepo = pumpkin (used for Halloween pumpkins)
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Swahili - punga pepo, - toa pepo, - lema pepo; Zaramo kuhunga madogoli. back
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